Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analyst contended that " studies that find age differences ( among teenagers ) tend to find them in measures that are sensitive to socio-economic factors such as the prenatal complications of toxaemia and anaemia , rather than in biologically constrained outcomes of labour and delivery " . |
| 2 | For the Lord revealed , ‘ I intend to baptise them with tongues of fire ’ ( Wagner 1973:16 ) . |
| 3 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 4 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 5 | We want to see them in action against South Africa . |
| 6 | I want to see you before lunch . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And I want to thank you on Hilda 's behalf . |
| 8 | But unlike Labour , who just want to extend national insurance contributions to all levels of income , we want to consolidate them into income tax . |
| 9 | If you want to talk it over anytime , we 'll arrange to meet . ’ |
| 10 | ( c ) the offeror receives a binding commitment from the merchant bank to pay cash to accepting shareholders who elect to receive it in return for the offeror procuring the allotment to the merchant bank ( or , as directed , sub-underwriters ) of the consideration shares ( by means of the nominations received from accepting shareholders ) . |
| 11 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 12 | Oh , want to stick it on top of that dome like cowboys do |
| 13 | The study 's author , Michael Cameron , thinks that roads should be treated like telephone lines or the electricity supply : if customers want to use them at peak times , they should pay more . |
| 14 | Now they want to use them at home . |
| 15 | One rather nice touch : fibre optics are built into the thermal panels behind the ice , so if you want to use it at night it will glow in the dark . |
| 16 | Try to scan artwork as near to the size you want to use it in order to avoid taking up large amounts of memory and having to re-size with the desktop publishing software . |
| 17 | yeah cos I want to put them on top |
| 18 | I want to put her with Larry and John G. and Ralph on Broadway and see the chemistry . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 20 | you wan na see the spellings in here , you want to leave them in Ton |
| 21 | If you want to do it with David then that 's fine by me , I 'll leave it to you to discuss with him . |
| 22 | Okay but we want to do it , good that 's it but we want to do it by times lots of these numbers times together . |
| 23 | anyway Bob said oh you 'll see him on Friday , I says Bill is a busy bloke you know , I says you ca n't just go on Friday and expect to do it over weekend |
| 24 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 25 | I want to give it to Angela to put away now so I know my money 's put a way . |
| 26 | Now I want to spoil you in return . |
| 27 | Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material |
| 28 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 29 | My youngest child is being bullied at school and I want to send her to St Saviour 's . |
| 30 | Yes , but I want to send it from town . |