Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone needs to drive these days . ’ |
| 2 | Not everyone wants to spend all the holiday lazing on the beach . |
| 3 | ‘ Cumbria is rugby league mad and everyone wants to see this match . |
| 4 | Everyone wants to achieve that . |
| 5 | While the fax machine is easy to use , it 's less attractive when it comes to mass faxing , as someone has to feed each document in and dial the destination . |
| 6 | ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him . |
| 7 | What you are telling me is that you are the kind of person who needs emotional space , and if someone tries to occupy that space all the time , then you do n't want to know . |
| 8 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 9 | No , nobody wants to do that . |
| 10 | Nobody wants to close any bed that is offering a good quality service , that is wanted and being used . |
| 11 | Nobody wants to see that flow become a trickle . |
| 12 | nobody wants to trade that way , I do n't |
| 13 | So in point of fact idioms is you 'll find that they always fit in either this slot or in this slot , but you wo n't find an idiom which has to form such that if you remove the subject and verb from a sentence you can stick the idiom in there and it will make sense . |
| 14 | It 's a good job , that somebody wants to revitalize these areas of land . |
| 15 | His concept of the press was very close to the soviet-communist view outlined above , in which the ruling party knows what truth is and falsehood equals anything which happens to challenge that view . |
| 16 | The group — which intends to donate all proceeds to Cancer Research , the MacMillan Nurses and the Special Baby Care Unit — is looking for sponsors , and are more than willing to wear sweatshirts with logos on them . |
| 17 | A Roger Rabbit-style cartoon , Evil Toons , released on video this month , promotes itself like this : ‘ Innocently the four girls unleash a nymphomaniacal cartoon monster from the pages of a spell-book which intends to scare more than the girls ' pants off . ’ |
| 18 | There are of course some real disadvantages in the switch from weekly to monthly pay , and the switch from cash to a bank account which tends to accompany this . |
| 19 | The argument is that proper name is an important signal to the processor to treat the referent as a main character , which tends to separate that character from others in terms of the roles they play in interpretative scenarios ( see also Garrod & Sanford 1988 for a fuller discussion of the concept of main character ) . |
| 20 | Even so , this is still largely an unmapped terrain , and the research strategy adopted here is one which aims to clarify some of the issues involved in inter-agency work and to identify areas of work in which it might be usefully advanced together with the limits and obstacles to its development . |
| 21 | The Institute has taken a leaf out of CIMA 's book and joined Opportunity 2000 , the business-led initiative launched by John Major , which aims to put more women into top management jobs by the beginning of the next century ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1991 , p 15 ) . |
| 22 | And I think that the strongest school-focused INSET is that which aims to do both . |
| 23 | Not so , says Helen Peggs , spokeswoman for Victim Support , which aims to support those people who have been victims of crime . |
| 24 | This is our basic delivery service which aims to deliver most parcels within the UK within 3 days from the date of despatch . |
| 25 | Anyone who follows this approach wholeheartedly must therefore be prepared for eclectic results : on the one hand theories inspired by a commitment to a moral ideal of autonomy and individual responsibility ; on the other , work which aims to subvert that very view . |
| 26 | Best himself seems to have few doubts as to why he got the nod , citing the growing importance of the Divisional Championship as the single most important factor in his — and England 's — meteoric rise . |
| 27 | If you allow this for each garment you will not be disappointed by lack of progress , which seems to cause some knitters to stop using the garter carriage altogether . |
| 28 | With all the criticism of standards of training and education flying around at present , it is heartening to see a tangible example of work which seems to refute some of it . |
| 29 | Wycliffe sensed that feeling of child-like excitement and anticipation which seems to infect those who find themselves almost anywhere on the fringes of the sea on a fine summer morning . |
| 30 | before a final all-embracing italicized section , looking back in its typography , placing , and , most importantly , its rhythm , recalls the opening nursery rhyme chorus , but gives it a universal voice which seems to include all that we have heard before in what is now a ritual chant ending with an appropriately childlike sound , |