Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] to [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can paint anything I want to at the moment , anything , everything . |
| 2 | In a daze , I set to with the trowel . |
| 3 | This I refer to as the ‘ Nottingham Forest Approach to law ’ . |
| 4 | I had what I refer to as the Flower Gentleman come to call on me — I 'm terrible at remembering names — and I liked him at once . |
| 5 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 6 | And I have to down the water . |
| 7 | Instead you appear to accept , almost as inevitable God- given phenomena , the ‘ thousands of angry commuters packing the station concourse at Charing Cross ’ ; ‘ a string of further crashes after Clapham ’ ( which you refer to in the context of PR imagery ) ; ‘ overcrowding for many commuters in Kent and Essex ( as ) a way of life , with some trains carrying 150% of their capacity ’ ( what about Surrey and Hampshire ? ) |
| 8 | As someone who has to ask occasionally for a care package for an individual , do I take it then the penultimate paragraph that this is the planning , you know , how you 're going to produce a care package for an individual , this is what you refer to in the planning system , and that you 're getting together with Social Services to get this care package together ? |
| 9 | Of the two prototype rock songwriters , it 's the more worldly Chuck Berry you turn to for the authentic picture of teenage pleasures in Eisenhower 's America : ‘ Gon na write a little letter , Gon na mail it to my local deejay . ’ |
| 10 | You have to into the potatoes . |
| 11 | When you 're away from your base and somebody is fielding your calls for you , give them this pad , and ask them to record the calls in this pad , then you can just tick that box on the right-hand side that says calls to answer , erm , and insert the pages as you need to into the daytimer . |
| 12 | Do n't want to I want you to learn things but there 's no point in learning everything twice is there or learning more than you need to at the moment . |
| 13 | The first of these is that what we refer to as the ‘ supply ’ of bills is in fact a stock , rather than a flow . |
| 14 | ‘ Behind us , immediately outside , is what we refer to as the Paddock . |
| 15 | I mean , it 's er it 's wo , that 's one we refer to as the Donnis mobile cos we can use that when the American Express comes through . |
| 16 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 17 | Er one wonders how on earth they speak to each other , or if indeed they even know who each other is or where their offices are and there is n't that personal relationship that one might expect to find in the normal concept of a legal firm and indeed er without clearly we go to off the point somewhat to have a discussion as to whether or not er a partnership is a suitable legal entity for these people to trade under . |
| 18 | It has meant , that churches need to be bold and be young or a threat to what we belong to as the edges between church and and community have blurred we are now much more vulnerable . |
| 19 | Can I just , as we come to towards the end of the programme , as you this . |
| 20 | But there are what they refer to as the ‘ problem families ’ . |
| 21 | They believe that there is an ‘ intermediate strata ’ sandwiched between what they refer to as the working and service classes . |
| 22 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |