Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me daring to negotiate conditions , under those circumstances . |
| 2 | But being happy always makes me want to buy things . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 4 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 5 | The agreement was a verbal agreement only on the first day of the new year and the two of them agreed to share profits equally . |
| 6 | An additional problem that has dogged personality theories is that of tautology ; if the categories are to mean anything , they must not be identified only by the fact that the people who fall into them tend to commit crimes . |
| 7 | In a concession made without fanfare , Israeli officials said , they wanted to give the Palestinians a ‘ face-saving ’ gesture that should enable them to agree to resume negotiations over self-rule in April . |
| 8 | It is not for teachers to tell them what to believe or value , but it is for them to try to equip pupils in such a way that they can enter into the debate and develop a coherent and perceptive worldview for themselves . |
| 9 | Another increasingly common way round the rules at the time was to engage in lease/lease-back arrangements , which became more and more complicated as the rules surrounding them tried to plug loop-holes , until they were finally outlawed in 1987 . |
| 10 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 11 | Everyone has to put limits on their emotional engagement with others — comprehensive engagement would be intolerable . |
| 12 | ‘ After every slump there 's a pick-up , and then everyone wants to make commercials . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone wants to shake hands and talk football . |
| 14 | Still less do I want to take sides between differing schools of psychotherapy . |
| 15 | And I want to make if I can a couple of deeper coloured cushions and if I can I want to make tie-backs for the curtains because everything in that room is so blooming pale . |
| 16 | ‘ I intend to buy bits of produce and talk to them . |
| 17 | I intend to keep cows when we move in , very much the same way as Hannah . |
| 18 | I intend to start alterations in spring and am determined not to be thwarted by cancer ( far less , the mere lack of money ) . |
| 19 | Answer : I intend to produce characters whose drawingroom behaviour was generally correct " . |
| 20 | I sought to score points earlier on the cavalier way in which previous Ministers dismissed the suggestions from the then Select Committee , by which we sought to limit the rate of increase in the residential care part of the Government 's budget . |
| 21 | I agreed to get photos of the fuel rods for the Union in Washington . |
| 22 | Perhaps he felt sympathy towards someone struggling to hook ideas together . |
| 23 | I got to remember things like that . |
| 24 | But I got to write songs with Dave Anderson and Rab Handleigh for the first time and the reggae ‘ Interference song ’ which Terry Neason sang was a thrill for me as I 'd always wanted to write something for her absolutely amazing voice . |
| 25 | I got to know women from other houses . |
| 26 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 27 | I got to get batteries to go with it though . |
| 28 | MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort . |
| 29 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 30 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |