Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 2 | The investment they make goes into a fund combining equities , fixed interest and cash . |
| 3 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 4 | Lectures about this type of library material tend to sound like a catalogue of unfamiliar names — the ‘ catalogue aria ’ . |
| 5 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 6 | I still intend to train as a doctor , because I feel there is no more interesting and worthwhile way to spend my life , but how many other people will be able to or want to in the future ? |
| 7 | The begetters of the whole event are artist Chris Garratt and writer Mick Kidd , who will be running a practical workshop in the Dovecot tomorrow , when they intend to work to a deadline to produce a complete comic strip . |
| 8 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 9 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 10 | ‘ Unless you intend to hide behind a door , it is too late . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ Remember that next time you want to go for a stroll . ’ |
| 12 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 13 | Fast cars always want to go for a ride . |
| 14 | My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home … |
| 15 | And er frankly , you would nah want to go to a male , a male only Burns supper , they , they they 're a most un seemly looking crew by the time they 've finished their dinner ! |
| 16 | ‘ I want to go to a party and Mum wo n't let me . |
| 17 | Domestic problems do n't arise when the Rayners want to go to a game — the whole family go along for the ride . |
| 18 | ‘ Want to go to a club and see some damage done ? ’ |
| 19 | " If you want to go in a trawler , go in summer , he advised me . |
| 20 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 21 | Yeah , well it 's just different directors have different things they want to emphasise in a play and if they want to bring something home or they think that using a certain well like say the way the people are dressed and everything will will have more of an impact , you know will |
| 22 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 23 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 24 | They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course . |
| 25 | When you want to borrow on a mortgage , the prospective lenders will have the property valued at your expense . |
| 26 | So , if the clients want to invest in a fund , they can do . |
| 27 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 28 | Just keep social engagements that involve eating to a minimum . |
| 29 | With my form filled in , I phoned : ‘ I want to come for a fortnight , but the problem is , I have a book to finish . |
| 30 | And then he said , ‘ You want to come for a ride in the car ? |