Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 2 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 3 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 4 | This only serves to alert me of course , though my brain has already caught on . |
| 5 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 6 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 7 | Instead , I hope to show that Poulantzas relies , for the explanatory force of these claims , on our pre-theoretical , voluntarist understanding of them , and thus fails to provide us with examples of the holistic form of explanation he advocates . |
| 8 | My destination , Maol Chean-dearg , for all it is a fine hill , just fails to make it as something special . |
| 9 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 10 | ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . ) |
| 11 | On Saturday afternoon , our faithful guide and interpreter Comrade Wong , together with another comrade who mysteriously seems to accompany us on such occasions ( Comrade Sun ) took us by car to the Friendship Store which is an emporium for the exclusive use of ‘ foreign friends ’ . |
| 12 | Eurowoman may have a baggy bottom , but she always manages to salvage it with a sensational pair of legs . |
| 13 | He further fails to fit them in his belief that natural philosophy fails to be a science simply because we are ignorant of the relevant real essences , not because there are no necessary connections in nature . |
| 14 | It means , it 's the new system where as you 're driving along , whatever you 're listening to it automatically interrupts to tell you of any urgent road delays . |
| 15 | Therefore the unit also has to prepare them for reintegration into school life . |
| 16 | Apple also intends to provide them with application programming interfaces and other technologies and services to insure Mac integration and interoperability in the multi-platform client/server environment . |
| 17 | Apple also intends to provide them with application programming interfaces and other technologies and services to ensure Mac integration and interoperability in the multi-system client-server environment . |
| 18 | The hostility which farmers have recently provoked from many environmentalists also helps to confirm them in their characteristic persecution complex , associated with being a small , closely knit minority in an urban industrial society . |
| 19 | Certainly for the American clearinghouses it is one of their few sources of finance , and again it also serves to maintain them as focal points for information . |
| 20 | Such an " experiment in your head " focuses on the writer 's actual decision about an ending , but also begins to tell you about how endings work in general . |
| 21 | I think he really wants to name it after every member of the Spurs football team , so if it 's a girl it could be tricky ! ’ |
| 22 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 23 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 24 | Provided it does n't melt , she now plans to show it at an exhibition in London . |
| 25 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 26 | He even has to take them with him to work . |
| 27 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 28 | She gathered information all morning ; taking accurate measurements and soil tests , pin-pointing particular features or specimens on her plan , even photographs to remind her for when she got back to her drawing-board and began designing . |
| 29 | As Pip begins to know him better they become much closer and Pip even wants to save him by smuggling him abroad . |
| 30 | Unfunded ‘ top-up ’ schemes , i.e. where the employer does not fund the top-up benefits but simply promises to pay them at retirement , are more tax-efficient but offer less security as you would be dependent on your employer keeping his promise . |