Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words about words tend to float off into a mysterious space of their own — though I hope most of those we have used have been firmly pinned down . |
| 2 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 3 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 4 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you , but I do n't want to go out for a meal tonight . ’ |
| 6 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 7 | I could have returned to Ipswich but I did n't want to go back like a beggar . |
| 8 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 9 | I daresay they 'll wonder why on earth you agreed to go out with a chap like me . " |
| 10 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 11 | I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches . |
| 12 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 13 | The forty seven year old aircraft failed to come out of a loop during a flying display at Woodford aerodrome near Manchester in June . |
| 14 | Why should a female want to pair up with a male that already has several females when there are bachelors around ? |
| 15 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 16 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 17 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 18 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 19 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 20 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 21 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 22 | Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example . |
| 23 | I do n't want to come out of a theatre feeling disturbed and offended . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again . |
| 25 | I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering . |
| 26 | I want to go out for a ride in the open air . ’ |
| 27 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 28 | You want to go out for a wee wee puss ? |
| 29 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 30 | Pr ( partner ) John Shaw is resolved to proceed along with a Mr. Wildhagen … |