Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I hate to sit on his knee . |
| 2 | I would say it was reasonable , since under our current agreement I shall be totally cancelling out your debt , that you contract to remain in my employ for three years . ’ |
| 3 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to see into your soul while I make love to you , mia Carolina . |
| 5 | People like Mick are rare , the kind of guy you want to see in your dressing room before a game that makes your stomach turn to water . |
| 6 | Because that 's not something we want to go through their Conference Office for if we only want to do a meeting , |
| 7 | Well if , after sitting a bit if you want to go into your mum you can ca n't you ? |
| 8 | I want to go to my bed ! |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , but — I just want to go to my room . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I want to go to your flat in Islington , Terry . ’ |
| 11 | You want to go on your pot again ? |
| 12 | I want to go in my seat . |
| 13 | I want to arrange for my body to be closed up in a transparent plastic parallelepiped ’ . |
| 14 | The birthday spectacle must have made General Norman Schwarzkopf want to weep into his beer . |
| 15 | It is up to you to select how much you want to invest in your TESSA each year or each month , without putting any undue strain on your finances . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm worn out with eating , ’ he said , ‘ I want to sit on your lap while you tell us a story . |
| 17 | If you want to sit on your potty you sit on it I do n't want a nonsense . |
| 18 | Yes I think you want to sit on your potty . |
| 19 | Yes , I think you want to sit on your potty too . |
| 20 | They do this by means of a beautiful display in which they appear to float across their territory showing off their enormous tails . |
| 21 | I have suggested already that he is all The Dubliners combined — the lost child , the resigned girl , the lonely or frustrated man , the seeker of false comfort — now I want to come at his importance from a different angle . |
| 22 | I want to try on my costume . |
| 23 | But , I suppose you , only want to know about my wife . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If Enya did say , ‘ I want to work with my husband from now on ’ , it would be a sad day , ’ says Nicky . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to work on my boat , ’ Sam objected . |
| 26 | I want to concentrate on my constituency , but before I do I shall make two points . |
| 27 | It would be a great honour but at the moment I want to concentrate on my game and just be one of the members of the team . ’ |
| 28 | Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader . |
| 29 | I want to write to his mother . |
| 30 | The ratchet is invariably geared to the rate of return which the investors expect to receive on their equity and that usually depends on the expected market capitalisation of the company . |