Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 3 | He makes me change , he makes me want to dance round him , bewilder him , dazzle him , dumbfound him . |
| 4 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 5 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 6 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 7 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 8 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 9 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 10 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 11 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 12 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 13 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know ’ , the Dowager Countess leaned close to Lucille , ‘ why some of them bother to dress at all ! |
| 15 | He told me to try to go to Cookham Wood : in his words , ‘ There 's a better class of prisoner there . |
| 16 | ‘ Would you like me to try to get in touch with her ? ’ |
| 17 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 18 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 19 | I put it down obediently although a childish urge in me wants to play with it as long as I like , just to prove that it does n't necessarily end up with me stupidly spearing myself . |
| 20 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 21 | I asked to talk to Cal again . |
| 22 | I asked to speak to Gina Buffon . |
| 23 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 24 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 25 | I asked to speak to somebody in the Highways in the Transportation |
| 26 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 27 | I asked to come to Grendon , I did n't like it when i got here , it took a lot of getting used |
| 28 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 29 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 30 | What do you mean what do I want to do with it ? |