Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When we shift from saying something to reporting what someone else said , we are changing our footing . |
| 2 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 3 | But he also makes some telling comparisons between the Windsors ' gleeful acceptance of baubles from foreign potentates , and the reluctance they show in giving anything in return . |
| 4 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 5 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 6 | Maybe I feel like throwing something in their direction , physically , verbally , or just under my breath . |
| 7 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel like suing somebody for all this . ’ |
| 9 | Less valid is the use of common salt , which will thicken even very weak solution , giving the impression of a far higher concentrate without adding anything to the performance . |
| 10 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 11 | Start by standing one behind the other to form a straight line . |
| 12 | Thank for clearing everything for me with the NYPD . |
| 13 | So we try and compensate by doing lots of family things at the weekends , when we are all together . |
| 14 | ‘ Wan na make anything of it ? ’ |
| 15 | I wan na do something in my chair . |
| 16 | do you wan na change anything in your site I do n't know |
| 17 | If you wan na know anything about Christianity Yes come in gentlemen . |
| 18 | Erm it 's pretty obvious really you wan na know anything about Christianity , you do n't know it , let's put it this way , you do n't know anything about Christianity unless you know something about Resurrection . |
| 19 | Wan na know anything 'bout being a woman ? |