Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 2 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 3 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 4 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 5 | They can not have teachers ready to respond to the rapidly changing social milieu ( the educational needs context ) which requires an extended approach to professionality , and at the same time expect to manage them in a modified bureaucracy which is predicated upon a restricted view . |
| 6 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
| 7 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 8 | But officials at both the DES and the HSE want to turn it into a specialist advisory group to the HSE . |
| 9 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 10 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 11 | And again in abbreviated form that , I just want to take you through the molecular basis for endotoxin action . |
| 12 | I just want to ask you about the actual erm methodology , which sections did you examine ? |
| 13 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 14 | The doctor looked carefully at her fingernails and neck , then said abruptly , ‘ I want to admit you to the Royal . |
| 15 | We now want to introduce you to an important new initiative under the heading of Tesco Cares . |
| 16 | We hope to see you at the grand final in London . |
| 17 | ( Beware of those therapists who seek to charge you for a complete course of treatment at the very beginning , as it is almost impossible to know how well each individual will respond and therefore how many sessions will be needed . ) |
| 18 | And s and begin to drive them with a consolidated plan . |
| 19 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 21 | Not so High Rocks , whose owners have steadily raised their admission charges in the last few years , threatened climbers with access restrictions , and put nothing at all back into the maintenance of the rocks , save to enclose them in a sturdy , reinforced fence . |
| 22 | So in practical terms of helping shoppers to make sound buying choices , the value of increased familiarity with APRs is somewhat curtailed by the way that people generally seem to equate it with the add-on cost of the credit . |
| 23 | Even when we are in fact focussing on spoken language , we seem to approach it with a theoretical apparatus which is more apt for the analysis of written language ’ ( 1982 , p . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , you seem to have them by the wrong end , but , seeing as no amount of protestations will make you change your mind , I sha n't bother . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 27 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |
| 28 | I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different . |
| 29 | My mother has just arrived and I would say from the look of her she is all set to greet you as a long-lost child . ’ |
| 30 | You also get to know them on a personal basis too … |