Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 2 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 3 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 4 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 5 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 6 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 7 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 8 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 9 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 10 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 11 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 12 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 13 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 14 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 15 | It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere . |
| 16 | He wants to expose it before the whole world , but he needs your help . ’ |
| 17 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 18 | but it , he needs to find out what he needs to teach you through the book so you know |
| 19 | I think he really wants to name it after every member of the Spurs football team , so if it 's a girl it could be tricky ! ’ |
| 20 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 21 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 22 | Only cos he wants to have you in a bath . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 27 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 28 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 29 | As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training . |
| 30 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |