Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 2 | A Soviet statement three days later made it ‘ absolutely clear ’ that the proposal of the EEC states ‘ can not serve as a basis for talks and no-one intends to hold such talks with them ’ . |
| 3 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 4 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 5 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 6 | As I said I 'll be talking about this in the next couple of weeks in the lectures and I hope to cover various things we did n't have time to touch on . |
| 7 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 8 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 9 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 10 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 11 | And I got to get some toilet roll . |
| 12 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 13 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 14 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 15 | His comment had caught me in mid-swallow and I managed to spray little bits of scone onto the coffee table . |
| 16 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 17 | I use Porter paints on my own house and I try to convince other people to buy them . ’ |
| 18 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 19 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 20 | And looked after it and I went to do this job for . |
| 21 | As well as keeping to the forefront our themes of quality and cost , this means coming forward with ideas on how things can be improved and I intend to introduce new initiatives during the coming year to help us focus on this . |
| 22 | And I intend to keep that promise . ’ |
| 23 | I have friends in Holland who are to visit next August and I wished to acquire some degree of proficiency in their language by then . ’ |
| 24 | And I want to thank those writers with whom solid friendships were formed : Melvyn Bragg , Gordon Burn , Jeremy Paxman , Michael Walsh , Jay Rayner , Colm Toibin and Grub Smith , among others . |
| 25 | More needs to be done and I want to see more focus on this key area of economic policy . ’ |
| 26 | I 've gone off him since I met Tony but we do share a love of mother earth and I want to see this thing through . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's a world market of over £100 million a year in clean technology and I want to see British industry winning a much larger share of it . ’ |
| 28 | Their taunts must have sickened her , so this ai n't the time to start mauling — even though I 've got a bulge in my pants like a bunch of bananas and I want to rip that nightdress of her and throw her on the bed . |
| 29 | Okay this is the fourth in our series and the second on the presidency and I want to do two things in this lecture . |
| 30 | try it again and I want to do two things for the rest of the morning . |