Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I 'll read you this piece and you 'll have to forgive my facsimile of a Herts. accent . |
| 2 | This process and this work represent my own attempts to acknowledge my position as a feminist artist and seriously to consider my responsibility and accountability as such . |
| 3 | I am fed up with French plaits and ponytails and refuse to wear my hair in a bun . |
| 4 | Recently , I tried to cancel my appearance at a benefit as my pianist was ill . |
| 5 | It is for this reason , following on from Freud and Szasz , that I propose to treat my patient as a text . |
| 6 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
| 7 | The Luciferi of France ( I 'll come to those bastards later ) would like to see my head on a pole . |
| 8 | I 'm now playing live again , and I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing . |
| 9 | ‘ I want the audience to see my recovery as a positive thing ’ |
| 10 | I began to see my environment in a new light as I connected the shapes and patterns I found in it with mathematics . |
| 11 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 12 | But this purported resolution of the paradox , as Fried concedes , only demonstrates the compatibility of uninhibited freedom to enter contracts with respect for autonomy ; it ‘ does not show that I am morally obligated to perform my promise at a later time if to do so proves inconvenient or costly ’ . |
| 13 | In Harrogate I was to meet my editor for a pep talk . |
| 14 | I had arranged to meet my husband in a department store . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've had enough and I 'm going to try my luck in a country I can actually understand . |
| 16 | So it was that on a golden autumn evening , towards mid-September of 1937 , I came to write my -30- to a career of journalism cum radio , and sat watching the flatness of the prairies give way to rising foothills as the twin-engined CPR ‘ Dominion ’ crawled westward up the slopes of the mountain . |
| 17 | I used to be frightened to fall asleep at night sometimes , afraid I 'd stick my head out from under the clothes while I was asleep and wake up to find my head in a dragon 's mouth , before I died . ’ |
| 18 | It is a personal , highly subjective account which seeks to relate my experience as an Irish lesbian , my involvement in political action at that time and my subsequent emigration to England in the mid-seventies . |
| 19 | I WOULD LOVE TO MASSAGE MY WAY TO A BODY BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE ( no more than 12 words ) |
| 20 | I want you to attract my attention with a full introduction to tell me . |
| 21 | He carried a bottle of water from the River Mississippi with which , he said , he planned to baptise my breast as a sign of love . |
| 22 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 23 | I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead . |
| 24 | For example , in the British Picture Vocabulary Test , the child is required to point manually or to eye-point to indicate her selection from a set of pictures . |
| 25 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |
| 26 | Rune had given her a sharp glance as she replied , but then appeared to accept her question as an affirmative , as he took her firmly by the arm to lead her into his chosen restaurant . |
| 27 | In the aftermath of Suez , Britain had no other option but to try to repair the damage done to her trans-Atlantic anchor cables and to accept her position as an offshore island of the United States . |
| 28 | ACTRESS Britt Ekland is to try her luck as a novelist following the failure of her eight-year marriage to toy boy ‘ Slim ’ Jim McDonnell . |
| 29 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 30 | The new government set out in 1649 to establish its position with a degree of success which must have surprised everyone who knew about its problems and had not realized the great energy that religious faith gave to its leaders . |