Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 3 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 4 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 5 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 6 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 7 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 8 | The liberal-historians , on the other hand , tend to find themselves in a somewhat more tricky position . |
| 9 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 10 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 11 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 12 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 13 | Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there . |
| 14 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 15 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 16 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 17 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 18 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 19 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 20 | Well can I bring , say bring it to the meeting and . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 23 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 25 | You want to sacrifice yourself in a bloody revolution that will have no hope of success , and you want to sacrifice hundreds , perhaps thousands of young lives with you ! |
| 26 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 27 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 28 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 29 | Swap swap it with a duff one ! |
| 30 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |