Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 2 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 3 | She did n't want me as a kid . |
| 4 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 5 | We shall attempt to apply and adapt them to a much shorter viewing distance , under controlled laboratory conditions . |
| 6 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't dish them out , or I 'll counteract them in a way you wo n't like . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was really lucky because I had a really great mother who would expose me to a lot of really great things . |
| 9 | You 'll want them on a long-line sweater or jacket , or else on a kind of Jolly Roger jumpsuit . |
| 10 | Well , if you do n't want them on , that 's the whole problems of obviously saying , erm , in fact , we do n't , if we do n't want them on a disk at all , we do n't have to have them . |
| 11 | Might want them for a cup of tea . |
| 12 | three eighty five do you want them in a carrier bag ? |
| 13 | Fox , 24 , says : ‘ Dave Stringer did n't fancy me as a player , it was as simple as that . |
| 14 | You can bloody well treat me to a couple of Cokes when the shops open . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 16 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't treat me as a child ! ’ she cried scornfully , ‘ You know that I love you , and that 's why I 'm being packed off . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 19 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 20 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 21 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 22 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 23 | We 've decided now that you you must n't treat me like a chi child . |
| 24 | Hazel , Hazel thinks you should n't treat me like a child ! |
| 25 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 26 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 27 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 28 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 29 | Ladies and gentlemen , I 'm very grateful to Professor Eppell for his characteristically kind and generous remarks , and erm I accept them all the more readily because I know you will treat them with a healthy degree of scepticism . |
| 30 | ‘ Jeff told me you promised your parents that you 'd treat them to a holiday this autumn in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — but that now you 're starting to worry about how you 're going to pay for it . |