Example sentences of "[vb base] [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 | Oh you want them to deep , deep , deep |
| 3 | Now I 've past the last base and you want me to just run through a minefield okay ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 6 | ‘ You say things like that and you expect me to bloody well sleep with you . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well I do n't think they expect you to anyway . |
| 9 | I urge you to please support this motion . |
| 10 | I urge you to seriously consider this offer and to ensure that you reply before the closing date . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | But I want you to then engage me in something about my business . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I find it more useful actually to write out the things I want you to actually do . |
| 15 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 16 | Today we all have access to the speed , warmth and comfort of cars , buses , trains and planes , if that is we have the money , if there is a service running when we want it to where we want to go and if there is n't already so much traffic ahead of us choking the roads , polluting the atmosphere that we wished we stayed at home . |
| 17 | They 're trying to arrange a ‘ mutually convenient ’ date ( and in the back of their minds they also want it to still be on sky … so unless we both get knocked out of the FA cup this weekend ( perish the thought ) we 'll probably end up playing a saturday and the following monday if moneygrabber silver is owt to do with it . |
| 18 | If there are items around that you hardly ever use , remove them to more remote storage areas away from your work areas . |
| 19 | Because of their beauty such villages are also more subject to draconian planning policies which may prevent any new development at all or restrict it to only the limited in-filling of low-density private housing . |
| 20 | I , I , I could take you into in Craven Arms on this Wednesday morning and introduce you to more unemployed people than are shown on the register , I think |
| 21 | Trust you to in ! |
| 22 | If using hangers , pad them to about three times the usual extent with acid-free tissue or with polyester wadding covered with white cotton ( which can also be used to pad out the shoulders and shapes of packed costumes ) . |
| 23 | But how can we generalise the argument and extend it to more ‘ normal ’ circumstances ? |
| 24 | Oh give it to down there |
| 25 | Tell him to fucking hurry . ’ |
| 26 | Tell him to just fuck . |
| 27 | If you did n't say anything , if you did n't give a me editing for a formula or copy it to somewhere else where the cell adjusting are longer , then it makes the formula longer and then you get |
| 28 | I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten . |
| 29 | Rather they alert us to just how powerful female potency really is in our collective psyches , despite , and even because of , its long repression . |
| 30 | For example , we now brief recruits on their rights and tell them and encourage them to actually come forward with their complaints , we very carefully brief and select our N C Os , we have open days for parents , we bring parents in so that they can feel part of the set up right from the start and so that their sons join the army and they tell their other friends to make sure they do to . |