Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I want to see it 's bloody silly ! |
| 2 | If you phone me up and say , Yes I want to come it 's all done . |
| 3 | Just want to know what is beautiful ? , its only in the eye of the beholder , every body sees something different . |
| 4 | And I want to know what 's wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're telling the truth , and you want to do what 's right . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I want to stress I 'm happy with the award but this is not a one-man team , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We want to show we are responsible towards the hospital . ’ |
| 8 | No matter how disturbingly accurate my visual memory may be , all-seeing is nowise all-hearing but suffice to say they were further indicators that the bridge over which I had crossed the abyss had been mined behind me . |
| 9 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 10 | Yet we tend to assume it is equal in all people . |
| 11 | Fellow player Mark Evans adds : ‘ I seem to remember him being solid and reliable in defence — the sort of person he is in life too . ’ |
| 12 | Ah seem to remember it is all there , in that book by Luiz Rodriguez . |
| 13 | Your friends begin to wonder what is wrong . |
| 14 | begin to suspect it 's more than the |
| 15 | I happen to believe they were right . |
| 16 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 17 | They seem to think they 're special in some way , almost as though they had the right to choose whether they 'll cooperate or not . ’ |
| 18 | M. You seem to think it 's right to be wrong . |
| 19 | All you seem to think it 's bloody Halloween come back again . |
| 20 | They seem to think it 's all a big scam between Gilles and his mates , but it 's more of an understanding of where we 're coming from . ’ |
| 21 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 22 | However , when planning a garment I always like to see what is possible , as it can improve the finish of a garment . |
| 23 | That you like to imagine you are better than those you judge and condemn ? |
| 24 | Clients like to think they are creative and often aspire to be part of the agency team creating and producing the campaign . |
| 25 | We all like to think we 're good . |
| 26 | We like to think we 're indispensable , that the flotilla could n't manage without us . |
| 27 | ‘ I like to think it is Italian without Italian local inhibitions , ’ he says . |
| 28 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |
| 29 | I like to think he was pleased . ’ |
| 30 | People tend to forget he 's 29 because he has got the enthusiasm and vitality of a teenager . |