Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector Drew wants to see you at five o'clock at Richmond Police Station . ’ |
| 2 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 3 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 4 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 5 | KAMPALA ( Reuter ) — Uganda 's President , Yoweri Museveni , whose government 's four-year term ends in four months , wants to extend it by two years to draft a new constitution . |
| 6 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 7 | Nutrition is the process by which the body acquires all the foodstuffs it needs to keep it in good working order and converts them into energy , new body tissue and those substances necessary to keep all the body processes ( metabolism ) going . |
| 8 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 9 | I see alright well or I I invite members of the jury , the council wants to address me on some point of law which need n't concern you , so if you take a short break please . |
| 10 | and if he wants to send them as one consignment , but now the value is twenty five thousand pounds collectively you can ring up Stubbings and as , or get your F and A to do this for you , Finance and Admin , ring up Stubbings and can you give me a special rate for these goods and ar , can you give me what I can charge them for special coverage to take it higher than our normal coverage of fifteen thousand pound ? |
| 11 | Could you please explain to her what these are/mean and let me know if she wants to change them from this : needs to be finalized by lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 12 | Few Wedding Present records have found their way to the United States and Hallin , obviously backed by RCA , wants to introduce them to this most lucrative market in the world . |
| 13 | No he wants to tape us on some sort of tape . |
| 14 | It means , it 's the new system where as you 're driving along , whatever you 're listening to it automatically interrupts to tell you of any urgent road delays . |
| 15 | In Britain , for instance , Waste Management International , Shanks & McEwan and Severn Trent/Biffa are enraged that the government has decided to postpone the introduction of the landfill standards in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , and refuses to apply them to existing landfills . |
| 16 | Although the thing is initially being tested under OS/2 2.0 and AIX , IBM plans to incorporate it in future operating systems and to do versions of the Distributed System Object Model for other systems — and the Taligent Inc joint venture with Apple Computer Inc also has licence to the technology . |
| 17 | Scaevola refuses to interpret it in this way . |
| 18 | That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’ |
| 19 | The company is already using Concurrent Object-Oriented C in-house , and plans to offer it to public and private research centres and universities across Japan by September . |
| 20 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 21 | He intends to divest you of all your power and become the caliph himself . ’ |
| 22 | If Councillor wants to go and get a G B H haircut it tends to confuse us on this side of the er as to exactly what we are debating . |
| 23 | TEC plans to use Employment Action as a pre-adult training phase , and Councillor , it intends to use it for those trainees who need extra help and resource , those that you referred to , those requiring language training , those requiring literacy and numeracy training , Councillor the very group that you referred to . |
| 24 | One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about any technology is that once you have it you always expect it to do more . |
| 25 | Bob Hoover 's North American P-51D Old Yeller was put up for action , but with a $1 million reserve Hoover gets to fly it for another year . |
| 26 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |
| 27 | Neither of them seems to find it in any way remarkable . |
| 28 | Lady Elizabeth Hoby was a striking woman in more ways than one ; her portrait seems to endow her with more strength and resolution than actual good looks . |
| 29 | On Saturday afternoon , our faithful guide and interpreter Comrade Wong , together with another comrade who mysteriously seems to accompany us on such occasions ( Comrade Sun ) took us by car to the Friendship Store which is an emporium for the exclusive use of ‘ foreign friends ’ . |
| 30 | Whatever tasks a doctor performs , whether routine or unusual , he seems to measure it against this standard of ‘ the great save ’ . |