Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's looking for a decent second-hand one , and I actually want to buy her a new one , and she does n't know about it . |
| 2 | I 'm doing it tomorrow cos I want to leave it a little bit |
| 3 | ‘ And if you want to do me a real favour , stop saying yes , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 4 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |
| 5 | We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home . |
| 6 | ‘ But I want to give you a little help with your wicket keeping . |
| 7 | What happens if he says well I want to alter it a little bit ? |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but we want to get it the right way about , ’ said Pumlumon . |
| 9 | I want to ask her an embarrassing question . ’ |
| 10 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister but I want to ask him a straightforward question . |
| 11 | We just want to ask you a few questions and get out . |
| 12 | They would begin to know that putting a little eighth note right before the next bar meant anticipation and that made things easier because , if you have a half hour lesson and they want to learn something by Iron Maiden , and you want to show them a dorian mode in three octaves and they 've got to show you their chords in four or five positions , you 've got to work fast ! |
| 13 | We want to show them the best . ’ |
| 14 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
| 15 | I want to make him an excellent offer for Sleet , one impossible to refuse . |
| 16 | They want to rip all the trees down as well they want to make it a little piazza thing do n't they ? |
| 17 | and they want to make it an elected module for people doing other things |
| 18 | ‘ I forget to tell you the other night . |
| 19 | I want I want to tell you a secret |
| 20 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Just stop giving me a hard time and leave me alone . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No great deal , perhaps , my lord , save to spare him a costly war . |
| 23 | The study of tone languages is less important for native speakers of non-tone languages , but most students seem to find it an interesting subject . |
| 24 | Loss of manuscripts or illustrations seem to cause him the greatest concern . |
| 25 | In fact , the new Microchip machines have every feature you could wish for , including Crease Save to give you a nice rest from heavy ironing sessions . |
| 26 | and you know we could , in those days because of the number of people employed being Electric Supply and Transport , we could erm , manage to keep it a viable proposition for an evening 's entertainment then and erm , you probably can turn this up in the , the Star they 're showing erm as he was then , one of the drivers swimming from erm Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 27 | ‘ Before we retroscend allow me a few prefatory remarks on your pants . |
| 28 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 29 | So I tend to give them a wide berth wherever possible . |
| 30 | I remember making her a little black satin coat and Dutch bonnet with things sticking out and all edged with lace and it was all er black satin and underneath the bonnet was er pleated er blue chiffon . |