Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Director of the Serious Fraud Office has decided to investigate suspected offences which appear to her to involve serious or complex fraud . |
| 2 | I would like to examine them with you this evening , because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense . |
| 3 | I just want to you know modern days was just confusing me and er , all this sort of thing . |
| 4 | I just think it 's important that say at they have one reference point |
| 5 | It would be wicked , mean of him to turn such a woman out . |
| 6 | The great pressure of the overlying sediments and the mineral-rich solutions that circulate through them cause chemical changes in the calcium phosphate of the bones . |
| 7 | It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine . |
| 8 | Jumping spiders , on the other hand , stalk their prey or perhaps stay hidden and wait for it to pass close by . |
| 9 | I wait for you to do that ; then I simply walk through the main hall , my empty suitcase in my hand . |
| 10 | Seriously next year boy you 're gon na get one major awakening , you think this year 's bad for physics , wait to you start next year . |
| 11 | I wish there was someone I could talk to about the problems — someone who 'd keep an eye on him and watch for him getting bad and get the doctor to do something , sooner ; someone who 'd help him with money , a job , get him out of the room for a bit , give us a break too . |
| 12 | He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge . |
| 13 | The terms of desire , fantasy and the unconscious as they have functioned for film theory seem to me to lose much of their explanatory power at the level of subjectivity and identification , and it may be , as Gillian Skirrow has suggested for video games , that television can be more adequately thought through a theory of object relations . |
| 14 | This is , obviously , a fairly limited model in its own right : further , the published reports seem to me to include sufficient logical uncertainties , and the model to require so much manipulation to deal with each individual case , to raise considerable doubts about its real value . |
| 15 | Two pieces of evidence seem to me to cast some doubt on the drawing of direct parallels between LTP and memory . |
| 16 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 17 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 18 | Faldo , Ballesteros and Olazabal seem to me to have much the best chance of maintaining Europe 's monopoly . |
| 19 | Faldo , Ballesteros and Olazabal seem to me to have much the best chance of maintaining Europe 's monopoly on the Masters . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've heard of people being accident prone , ’ Harris observed after a while , ‘ but you seem to he murder prone , Melissa . ’ |
| 21 | Just brainstorm as many ideas as possible , including ideas which seem to you like obvious truths . |
| 22 | When his call was refused by Sir Derek Alun-Jones , the chairman , on the grounds that it was likely to form the basis of future litigation , Mr Mackeson-Sandbach said the trustees would be seeking ‘ legal advice on the means open to them to examine this report ’ . |
| 23 | Much really depends on the quality of opportunities open to you to refresh old skills , and to introduce new ones on a sensible timescale and with proper supervision and support . |
| 24 | Oh look at her knocking all them balls of that |
| 25 | Look at him working those two down there , er there |
| 26 | as I say you look at I mean this is two fifty . |
| 27 | but he does n't tend to show me up as much now thank goodness , but late one night he really went naughty , you know when they look at you like that sideways and they know that you ca n't wallop them because those |
| 28 | such a bloody annoying bastard and if you talk they stare at you like this |
| 29 | Talk about I reckon that , er Evelyn 's niece said er I said that 's how they used to dress boys , I said ho she said why I said probably |
| 30 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |