Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can link them to show that one task has to be completed before another can be started , and rearranging tasks if you make a mistake is no problem — you simply drag them to where you want them . |
| 2 | Do you want me to just go through any others ? |
| 3 | Do n't want me er do n't want me to just check it ? |
| 4 | Alright , any other , do you want me to just , do you want me to just to get her to call you ? |
| 5 | Alright , any other , do you want me to just , do you want me to just to get her to call you ? |
| 6 | You know , they told me , and the they were on , and they were like they really expected them to just make up and they started having a fight ! |
| 7 | Or outworkers who were expected to know how to perform them to very exacting standards for very low wages . |
| 8 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
| 9 | One day last week we stopped in a deserted village and the guerrillas led me to where lunch was being prepared . |
| 10 | We then asked them to already booked . |
| 11 | The flow of supplies to Iraqi troops in Kuwait , he said , had been cut from the 20,000 tons per day needed to support them to only 2,000 tons . |
| 12 | Oh you want them to deep , deep , deep |
| 13 | Now I 've past the last base and you want me to just run through a minefield okay ? |
| 14 | Well tt during , during our discussions I 'll be taking notes on your current financial situation but also why erm your thoughts for the future and erm and in doing this I 'll be using this form to actually assist me to actually take down these notes . |
| 15 | We clean their homes , fetch their shopping , ferry them to where they wish to go ; and we do all this without thinking that our care might be undermining their independence , even their morale . |
| 16 | He invited me to not a few tea parties and was very gracious and talked most sociably . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 18 | ‘ You say things like that and you expect me to bloody well sleep with you . ’ |
| 19 | [ She goes on to note that ] … the needs of squeezing religions into manageable units can easily lead to unhelpful emphases on the superficial , the external and the exotic on the one hand , or the conservative , the established and the institutional in religious traditions on the other hand , at the expense of such less obvious and less accessible factors as the profound interiority of faith , the mundane ordinariness of discipleship , and the radical reforming zeal within traditions which challenges them to continually renew themselves . |
| 20 | It is the kind of system with which experts can quickly get to grips but it is also targeted at non-technical authors , enabling them to quickly edit text , sound and images either to create multimedia presentations or to produce interactive multimedia applications . |
| 21 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 22 | ‘ But we limited them to just a couple of chances . |
| 23 | But she 's family as well you see , so she becomes an independent , once she 's married , she becomes an independent then they 're e they expect you to when you 're on income support . |
| 24 | Well I do n't think they expect you to anyway . |
| 25 | Well listen , let me i let me introduce you to now who shall we pick , Tony , first of all what have you got to say to it , sitting |
| 26 | I urge you to please support this motion . |
| 27 | I urge you to seriously consider this offer and to ensure that you reply before the closing date . |
| 28 | Now we we 'll have done some of them there and I do n't want you to look there okay I want you to just try it |
| 29 | But I want you to then engage me in something about my business . |
| 30 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |