Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 3 | Partly-exempt businesses , which previously used the value of taxable ( including zero-rated ) and exempt supplies to determine input tax recovery , are allowed to continue using those calculations by including the value of outside-the-scope supplies with the right to input tax recovery in the value of taxable supplies , and including the value of outside-the-scope supplies without the right to input tax recovery in the value of exempt supplies . |
| 4 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 5 | I blush to admit it , but those of us who were born into the trade tend to disdain these crossovers as an inferior breed . |
| 6 | It fails to put forward any options for accept for erm , equal rights , for disability or race , and we think this is an omission , and if it were your intention to write a response , we would want to include that point in the response we make . |
| 7 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 8 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 9 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 10 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 11 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |
| 12 | When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’ |
| 13 | But I admit , I am glad it 's all over — I do n't want to see another pack of cards for a couple of weeks ! ’ |
| 14 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 15 | Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun . |
| 16 | The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense . |
| 17 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 18 | It 's no longer thought of as cranky or old-fashioned , as the press tries to make out , but as a much-needed way of helping to preserve this world by finding alternatives to chemicals and peat-cutting . |
| 19 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
| 20 | He did n't want to usurp any announcement by SCO ( see page one ) and was still talking in terms of how SCO might gracefully go to SVR4 and whether the companies ' two technologies might be blended . |
| 21 | No , they er I heard someone say that though they sort of actively encourage the use of to go to see many things like sort of sport days , erm . |
| 22 | Indeed titles are everywhere in China today , with little trace of the fact that the Cultural Revolution sought to banish such indicators of rank and position . |
| 23 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 24 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 25 | He has been a very high profile MP and the voters tend to like that sort of thing . ’ |
| 26 | Anyway , that meant that the whole thing was top secret , because they did n't want to risk any leaks in case somebody followed up the work and got in first with a patent . ’ |
| 27 | Caine was filming in London with Sidney Poitier , and once or twice a week they would take it in turns to treat each other to a decent meal . |
| 28 | It is intended to compare these costs with tax revenue ; to examine their incidence ; and to identify the particular areas and causes of high compliance costs . |
| 29 | Get up at two , I do n't think got much mention to them at all from what I was |
| 30 | No young man offers to carry this burden for her . |