Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 2 | Suckers tend to come loose with age . |
| 3 | And I want to see more of France — I had a ball there — but after Paris I went to Spain and got really ill . |
| 4 | However few who die are reckoned fit to enter directly into the presence of God and the vast majority of Roman Catholics expect to go first to Purgatory either on account of dying ‘ in venial sin ’ ( Catechism P. 32 ) or being ‘ indebted to God 's justice on account of mortal sin . ’ |
| 5 | During that time , police say they expect to issue hundreds of summonses . |
| 6 | I want to know all about kidnappings . |
| 7 | I want to hear all about Pinehurst . ’ |
| 8 | I pay , for I want to hear more of Elena 's story , to compare it with what I learned earlier in the evening . |
| 9 | ‘ The match is being beamed back to White Hart Lane and you always want to look good in front of the cameras . ’ |
| 10 | Wear them when you want to look smart without feeling over-dressed . |
| 11 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , Tom , ’ Sarah said , but he continued , smiling at her , ‘ No , no , I want to put this on record . |
| 13 | ‘ Bringing jobs and better training opportunities to eastern Middlesbrough is central to the Challenge programme and we want to do that by building on the skills and qualities of the people living there , ’ he said . |
| 14 | You want to give that to Deborah ? |
| 15 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 16 | Well well I want to understand more about Kuwait , though , as a result of this programme , and a lot of people do n't really know what it means to be Kuwaiti . |
| 17 | To explain this point ( which Barro ( 1977a ) recognizes in a footnote , p.107 fn. 15 ) and also to demonstrate that Barro 's results appear to hold true for countries other than the US , we shall outline a model similar to Barro 's which Attfield , Demery and Duck ( 1981a ) ( henceforth ADD ) applied to UK annual data for the period 1946–77 . |
| 18 | The other thing to remember is that women who have sex with women may be at risk of HIV infection if they share needles or syringes to inject drugs , or use semen that has not been tested for HIV if they want to get pregnant through self-insemination . |
| 19 | If you want to get pregnant by donor insemination , all sperm donated to the major clinics is tested for HIV . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm really making a plea in the lectures that if the British want to get involved in Europe , they should show a few signs , be prepared to learn other languages , open up to other cultures . |
| 21 | I want to get involved in rehabilitation and education . |
| 22 | It 's her I want to get ready for Saturday , for this championship show . |
| 23 | If you really want to make light of powder you are better off with specialised hardware . |
| 24 | Well , now I want to introduce another of Fodor 's theses which , for my money , is as correct as the other two are false . |
| 25 | IF you want to become invincible in SNOW BROTHERS on the Game Boy , wait until the title screen appears and then press and hold Left , Down and A. |
| 26 | Few of us ( unless we are looking for this ) want to become fixated with interest on another individual . |
| 27 | We seek to tackle this by programmes which support economic and social development , which improve education and health care and give parents the chance to have children by choice . |
| 28 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 29 | My favourite subject has always been English , and I hope to study this at university . |
| 30 | Imagine doing that at home at eight in the morning . |