Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He goes I want the beautiful page three girl , Samantha Fox .
2 ‘ My wife wants me to take the early retirement , move away from Murmansk .
3 He wants me to tell the same traveller 's tales as 'im and 'is mates — the artful hound !
4 got cod roe and fish cakes for supper and bought four salmon heads ( OH how I hate those glazed eyes looking at me when first one steams them to get the good flesh off ) for soup .
5 However after one to three years a signal , possibly hormonal , causes them to don the silvery camouflage of sea fish .
6 He wants them to scrap the minimum lending rates which are used to keep interest rates high , even though the bank base rates have fallen .
7 Has she asked the Atomic Energy Authority about these contracts ?
8 Has she seen the great efforts being made this year to obtain private inward investment into southern Africa in the form of conferences and other initiatives ?
9 " Who has she left the other half to ?
10 I 'm sure she wants you to extend the same warmth to her that you extend to me by using my first name . ’
11 As he handed her the key , he added , ‘ Apparently she wants you to take the personal things from her lodgings . ’
12 He wants you to write the whole book here .
13 Accessing this part of the package requires no fiddling with anything in DOS , but needs you to connect the two computers between which files are to be passed via either a parallel or serial lead .
14 It also has we have the largest independent producers of street maps in the country .
15 From his first appearance as the languid young aristo to his final entrance as a surgical case in a wheelchair , Rupert Everett makes the character as much Harlequin as Mephistopheles , and the magnetic allure with which he endows him balances the brittle cynicism and affectation of a man who measures every word for effect .
16 Has it done the same to you ? ’
17 I say , has it got the fair-trade mark on it ?
18 Our first question is has it got the fair-trade mark ?
19 Has it got the same number of petals on it ?
20 When Count Philip of Flanders suspected that his wife had committed adultery with Gautier de Fontaines he had the young man killed by hanging him upside down in a cess-pit .
21 If he has , has he noted the three pages of advertisements by receivers and administrators of companies that have failed ?
22 Yeah , is he coming back or has he gone the other side of the pond ?
23 I said , ‘ Has he joined the true cause ?
24 Has he made the right choices , and can he suggest the current direction of American art with just these three candidates ?
25 Has he seen the excellent Glasgow Evening Times article of 20 November which highlights that serious problem in Scotland ?
26 Only once has he named the same team twice in succession ( against the Netherlands and Germany during the European Championship finals last year ) , but the latest spate of trouble is exceptional .
27 ‘ What , boy , and has he taken the very bed from under you — the very pillow from under your head ? ’
28 That 's more like it , but why has he bypassed the usual channels ? ’
29 Has he chosen the right one for you — or the right one for him ?
30 ‘ And has he married the young milkmaid , as he promised ? ’
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