Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Females tend to remain in their natal units , which thereby increase gradually in size . |
| 2 | I want to see inside your lovely house . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mama , I want to try on my new dress , ’ Anna said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I now want to know about his fractured leg . |
| 6 | If you want to talk about something different MPs voting themselves er twice the rate of inflation pay rise . |
| 7 | they want to talk about anything other than crime prevention |
| 8 | Are there any places you want to praise for their special facilities ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 11 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most of it will be spent providing hospital accommodation for parents who want to stay with their sick children . |
| 16 | But , but it 's highly , I mean I do n't , it does n't follow to me that that in any way is compliant with Marxist ideology because surely you want to get to your socialist state |
| 17 | wanted this meeting to take place , I want to find out what the design philosophy is , long-term future-wise , and also , I want to get into their detailed design , so to try and establish how they determine the size of sh even simple things like pinion carved diameter , which dictates |
| 18 | Irate customers who bother to complain to their local water executives will be told the rises are no higher than were forecast . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to whisper in your shell-like ear . ’ |
| 20 | Buyers who desperately want to move into their new home will not thank a conveyancer who makes life difficult for a seller 's conveyancer who does not have a perfect title . |
| 21 | If you rent your home from the local authority and want to move within your present locality , the housing department may be able to recommend a housing association in addition to their own accommodation . |
| 22 | I have some pictures of it here , which I want to show to my hon. Friend . |
| 23 | Malvern had Streather and Blanchet to thank for their decisive third point in the semi-final against Harrow and a win on the 19th . |
| 24 | The second equation embodies the structural neutrality and rational expectations hypothesis : for each country only the unpredictable component of monetary growth causes output to deviate from its natural rate . |
| 25 | Of rather more popular appeal than hairy snails , perhaps , the dragonfly best represents the ancient life of the river bank , that point where land and water meet , where life began , and where waterside plants still provide a slipway up which dragonfly larvae climb to emerge in their full splendour every spring . |
| 26 | Write down exactly what you hope to do with your new horse and what your priorities are ; perhaps you want to hack and compete in Riding Club events , or maybe you want to concentrate on dressage or show jumping . |
| 27 | The larger nations , especially , seek to export to their traditional customers , language communities , and former colonies ; and they seek to develop various joint ventures and alliances with American and Japanese companies . |
| 28 | Mr Christie said that he had accepted the invitation to join the board only ‘ while the manager and the team seek to recover from their present dangerous position in the Premier League ’ . |
| 29 | The legs and hips begin to work at their maximum power when the club arrives parallel to the ground during the forward swing . |
| 30 | In order to give businesses time to adjust to their new rate liability , the change in the amount of rates to be paid by a business will be phased in probably over 5 years . |