Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister designate obviously viewed me with suspicion , as being closely associated with his predecessor . |
| 2 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
| 3 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 4 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
| 5 | Pat just bores me with his rantings . ’ |
| 6 | Imagine what might be done with the collected works of Alexander Hamilton when the Founding Fathers project eventually provides them on CD-ROM sometime in the not too distant future . |
| 7 | Gloucestershire is the first of many ambulance services intending to adopt the new livery and they hope eventually to have it on their whole fleet . |
| 8 | It is common for some mothers to ask their child to do something and then walk away expecting it to be done . |
| 9 | Imagine still doing it at forty ! ’ |
| 10 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
| 11 | Pat always reminded me of my own shape — a reasonably well proportioned figure but very heavy on the hips and thighs . |
| 12 | I just stand there watching her with her hair falling out of her hat , holding this dress against herself . |
| 13 | You need not hurry them away to lie in your sewing-basket or run upstairs to fold them under your handkerchiefs . |
| 14 | Speich barely restrained himself from grabbing it out of her hand . |
| 15 | Please remember though to ask us before going overdrawn . |
| 16 | One snap even shows him on top of her , no doubt for closer inspection . |
| 17 | I know there advertising it on the T V |
| 18 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 19 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 20 | Todger practically had him by the throat . |
| 21 | Benstede later named him as Lord Robert , the leader of the Bruce faction . |
| 22 | But 95 per cent of the studies he reviews deal with the assessment , causes , and treatment of homosexuality , and in doing so , continue indirectly to define it as a problem . |
| 23 | I try to make a joke out of what she 's driving at , and lean forward to poke her in the belly . |
| 24 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 25 | Guntram even accused her of wanting to marry one of them ; a suggestion which Gregory found preposterous . |
| 26 | You 'll come to a track where you turn right to bring you to the main road . |
| 27 | An impromptu purchase , and a bit extravagant , but remaining tidily or prettily dressed is an important investment in job search , marriage and social life , so I try only to slum it in track suit at weekends and totally quiet evenings at home . |
| 28 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
| 29 | Germaine also saw him with Jeanne and her mother in the Rue de France . |
| 30 | I try regularly to remind everyone of that point , and I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding the House of it . |