Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 3 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 4 | When psychologists study them specifically , they tend to observe them in a social , family or work context which loses sight of their individual subjectivities . |
| 5 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 6 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 7 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 8 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 9 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 10 | I must look deep , deep into your soul and grow to trust you as a brother ! ’ |
| 11 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 12 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
| 13 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 14 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 15 | And now they 've changed their mind and want to put me in a caravan . |
| 16 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 17 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 18 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 19 | Start a hobby Contact your local adult education centre if you want to do it in a group |
| 20 | They can not have teachers ready to respond to the rapidly changing social milieu ( the educational needs context ) which requires an extended approach to professionality , and at the same time expect to manage them in a modified bureaucracy which is predicated upon a restricted view . |
| 21 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 22 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 23 | The couple have been offered a decoration grant of £210 , hardly enough , they say to turn it into a home . |
| 24 | But officials at both the DES and the HSE want to turn it into a specialist advisory group to the HSE . |
| 25 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 26 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 27 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 28 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 29 | It would have been a richer joy — but , indeed , as I so often tell you , I delight to picture you in a childlike serenity . |
| 30 | With machine knitting we tend to restrict it to a maximum of three stitches over three stitches because the machines are supplied with triple transfer tools . |