Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 2 | PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark . |
| 3 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 4 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 5 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 6 | You want me to throw the bloody thing , do you ? |
| 7 | Abdesselam told the press on July 27 that the elimination of corruption remained a high priority and that " those who paid the price for the measures that have been taken so far are the youth … let no one expect me to make the deprived masses pay any more " . |
| 8 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 9 | And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 . |
| 10 | We expect you to observe the general rules of conduct and standards of behaviour as et out below . |
| 11 | Er the Director of Transportation recognises that , it was said that he 's happy to await the outcome of liberations by that er District Council and that 's what the Conservative group has suggested that we do but if he wants you to recognise that every policy has to be accepted , the way in which they have performed time and decided to be addressed by my members of of all parties and therefore I urge you to support the Conservative resolutions I now put forward . |
| 12 | Some of the requirements may be unnecessary but we urge you to adopt the suggested techniques wherever possible to give you the practice that is needed before you can become a competent report writer . |
| 13 | ‘ I want you to join a scientific team . |
| 14 | I want you to give the European components presentation to Klepner . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 16 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , but the thing is , what it 's , what it 's doing is that , they want you to have a normal conversation on . |
| 18 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 19 | ‘ I want you to catch the first flight back from Brussels . |
| 20 | Seems they want you to address the European Commission on European industrial development . |
| 21 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 22 | ‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary . |
| 23 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 24 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 25 | We do n't believe he was infectious before May 21 and we expect him to make a complete recovery . |
| 26 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 27 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 28 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 29 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 30 | Step one , then , in intelligent persuasion is to acknowledge the status of your ‘ audience ’ through targeting what you say and how you say it to meet the specific needs of the individuals involved : the ‘ What 's in it for you ? ’ factor . |