Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such animals may appear magical to us because we tend to cling to our own heavily filtered reality . |
| 2 | And since the rich tend to sit in their own gardens , public parks help redistribute enjoyment towards the poor . |
| 3 | Females tend to remain in their natal units , which thereby increase gradually in size . |
| 4 | ‘ I intend to sit by you all night . |
| 5 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |
| 6 | To see something really special today though requires a discerning nature and to an extent it depends upon which technique you want to see at its best . |
| 7 | I want to see inside your lovely house . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And what 's more , ’ said the Old Stager hotly , ‘ if yer want to go to yer 250 scores , there only six further English names in that list of two of them was Surrey men : P.B.H. May and Kenny Barrington . |
| 9 | After the horror stories about the dogs I hesitate to go near my first one , but with us they are just big balls of fur . |
| 10 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 11 | ‘ Mama , I want to try on my new dress , ’ Anna said . |
| 12 | Readers will work hard at a text if they need to know something about their favourite football player or team , if they want to know about their favourite singer or group , if they want information for a project that really interests them , or if they need information a make something or improve their performance in some way . |
| 13 | I now want to know about his fractured leg . |
| 14 | Should you , at any stage , decide you want to work on your own , then you may give this Moscow policeman the slip . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | If you want to talk about something different MPs voting themselves er twice the rate of inflation pay rise . |
| 18 | they want to talk about anything other than crime prevention |
| 19 | Are there any places you want to praise for their special facilities ? |
| 20 | But I want to look at them both and I will go through them as well and mark them for spelling and for for your punctuation and everything else . |
| 21 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 22 | ‘ We want to put behind us these tawdry , shabby years of the 1980s ’ materialism , the salmonella , listeria society of Thatcher . ’ |
| 23 | C we 've , I mean we 've , we are having discussions , er , with the health authority about the way in which they propose to deal with their good fortune this year . |
| 24 | Perhaps if corporation executives paid as much attention to programme budgets as they appear to do to their own tax returns , viewers would get better value for their licence money . |
| 25 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 26 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 27 | The numbers may partly be due to the reputation Switchboard enjoys as a good training ground for employment , mainly in the voluntary social services ( every time the organization manages to build up a core of daytime volunteers , half of them find jobs ) but the largest group of prospective volunteers are past callers , people who , having found the service useful , want to contribute to its continued existence . |
| 28 | People want to read about something different and with Mainz central to the rest of Europe this is both an important and controversial plant site . |
| 29 | Perhaps in her company you fade psychologically — you are so used to believing that she is more attractive that you cease to believe in your own abilities . |
| 30 | When cooking with the children we want to finish with something eatable , so we are likely to add the liquid carefully ourselves , but we could let children experiment with the play-dough and if they make the first lot too soggy , more flour and salt can be added without much trouble until they make a ‘ workable ’ dough , and there can be plenty of conversation about too much , too little , a little more , a lot more and enough . |