Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 2 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 3 | Only cos he wants to have you in a bath . |
| 4 | The trainer believes he still has time to get Rodrigo de Triano back to peak fitness for the 2,000 Guineas but stresses that the colt will not take his place in the Classic if the ground softens up : ‘ If there is even a touch of soft , he wo n't run ; he needs to have it like a road . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 6 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 7 | — JON Gittens , a key figure in Middlesbrough clinching a place in the new Premier League next season , wants to join them on a permanent basis from Southampton . |
| 8 | It is owned by property developer Robert Lance Hughes who plans to re-erect it on an as yet unconfirmed site . |
| 9 | It plans to do it with a range of shoes , which although a complete change from last year , still concentrates on the technical merits of StableAir . |
| 10 | He has bought the rights to a steamy book by Darling Buds Of May author H. E. Bates and plans to turn it into a TV movie starring his wife . |
| 11 | The new version of the bus , which meets the IEEE 1596–1992 interconnect standard , will be jointly designed by the two companies , and will be manufactured and marketed by LSI Logic , which plans to offer it as an ASIC core through its CoreWare Division . |
| 12 | 3 ) In the instruction manual for the BOSS ME-5 it says to take it to a recognised dealer to get the back-up memory battery replaced . |
| 13 | Provided it does n't melt , she now plans to show it at an exhibition in London . |
| 14 | Where it does develop theories , it tends to found them on a specifically female individual consciousness , assuming that , if we learn to think and feel gynocentrically , we can overcome patriarchy . |
| 15 | Just as surely God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship , so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great general disillusionment with others , with Christians in general , and , if we are fortunate , with ourselves . |
| 16 | ‘ In addition I 'll give you whatever it costs to equip you with a suitable outfit to attend inter-views . |
| 17 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 18 | The drop of a hat , or anything else , is all it takes to turn you into a passion-packed romantic day . |
| 19 | Six years on , the job almost seems to fit him like a glove . |
| 20 | Kent County Council , at least , has ben persuaded of the value of the Hybrid Bill and appears to favour it as a means of dealing with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link . |
| 21 | The landlady , a woman of around forty or so , appears to regard me as a rather grand visitor on account of Mr Farraday 's Ford and the high quality of my suit . |
| 22 | If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination . |
| 23 | So Abelard 's theory seems to present me with a challenge as formidable as climbing Mount Everest . |
| 24 | The ‘ Dust in the air suspended ’ seems to present us with a barren desert of death . |
| 25 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 26 | The vessels ' hulls are completely intact , and the team hopes to raise them within a few years . |
| 27 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 28 | With regard to the taking of money , the accused has the intention permanently to deprive the victim of the coins and notes actually taken , even though he means to replace them with an equivalent amount . |
| 29 | And he means to do it as a joke does he ? |
| 30 | He tries to interest me in a PS/2 Model 55 . |