Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well I mean I quote from the nineteenth of November letter from the Parish Council , The Parish Council fully support the environmental recommendations from the District Council .
2 We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax .
3 They want me to join in the whole furore .
4 How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily .
5 When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ?
6 ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two .
7 I now realise I looked for the wrong things .
8 Remember that bit of bother I had in the Red Hart in Berkeley ? ’ he continued , ‘ the sailor went through the window . ’
9 D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere .
10 By night we suggest you head for the old quarter of Sachsenhausen which is packed with delightful pubs and restaurants .
11 I suggest you talk to the ten leading political editors in England , and see where they stand . ’
12 So what d' you think of the old place ?
13 Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and
14 Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form .
15 I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady .
16 Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him
17 Pity it backfired during the lucky draw at Edinburgh 's ritzy Prestonfield House Hotel recently .
18 ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it .
19 ‘ I decided to crackle glaze it to merge with the French antique furniture , ’ Sam explains .
20 ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’
21 Let them see to it that their power is used effectively in the coming elections for the establishment of a bona-fide working-class party , and above all let them beware of the intriguing politics and hypocritical middle class friends of Germany .
22 Erm , let me start with the monthly calendar card please .
23 ‘ Then let me arrange for the two of you to meet . ’
24 and let me deal with the first form ?
25 Let me deal with the main points of the statement item by item .
26 Let me read to the right hon. and learned Gentleman what the Engineering Employers Federation said : ’ Our experience is that provided they are properly conducted ’ — the very point that I am making — ’ secret workplace ballots are not subject to harassment and have additional beneficial features .
27 But let me get to the various leaders ' speeches .
28 Let me respond to the specific ECGD point raised by the right hon. Gentleman .
29 Now let me say with the monthly card and with the daily page , I 'm going to be showing you a very structured approach to planning .
30 Their main concern was that independent arbitration would drag out negotiations and prevent them complying with the MMC proposals to free pubs from the tie by the deadline of November 1992 .
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