Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Only cos he wants to have you in a bath . |
| 6 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training . |
| 9 | Now she wants to join him in the ring at Moscow State Circus . |
| 10 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 11 | However , the museum plans to display it in the spring in the Egyptian galleries . |
| 12 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |
| 13 | The Capital Plan for next year appears to treat it in the same way as capital receipts from sales , with the total being pooled and divided between the various programmes . |
| 14 | The Holiday Property Bond aims to point you in the direction of a vacation . |
| 15 | Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) . |
| 16 | As an example , let's say a friend asks to see you in the morning before work because she wants to talk to you . |
| 17 | He tries to interest me in a PS/2 Model 55 . |
| 18 | At the moment the sail is only attached down its needed edge but before we can use it , we 've got to control it properly and that means to tuck it in the boot the jaws clip on here , the down-haul clips on to the sail and is threaded through the jaws before we make it up on the cleat the position of the boom and hence the sail relative to the wind is controlled by this rope , the mainsheet . |
| 19 | We have also made it clear that free tests will be available to anybody who wishes to have them in the hon. Gentleman 's local authority area . |
| 20 | Similarly , an element which has been mentioned before may be presented as new because it is unexpected or because the speaker wishes to present it in a contrastive light . |
| 21 | Tell a grown-up you trust if anyone frightens you or tries to touch you in a way which makes you feel unsafe . |
| 22 | She 's met a lot of friends here and and likes to meet them in the canteen . |
| 23 | WPC Ackland is hot on his trail — but for some reason never manages to catch him in the act . |
| 24 | It is when we make an attempt to clarify it that the confidence begins to desert us in the face of difficulties . |
| 25 | Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ . |