Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now .
2 Can we really expect them to retain the same way of thinking as they had as penniless hopefuls , and if they did would n't that simply be an insipid patronisations ?
3 You would n't expect them to forecast the same price all the years , right .
4 If enzyme deficiencies are at the root of the problem in chemical-sensitive patients then one might expect them to show the same sort of reaction to small amounts of a chemical as normal people show to large amounts of that chemical .
5 I did n't expect you to do the same again — that is , if you had a day off tomorrow . ’
6 And you still know how to do you se do you feel the same am I only dreaming or is this burning
7 His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession .
8 Do n't expect him to do the same .
9 You were ready to give up what you believed in — and I could n't even bring myself to abandon a few outworn prejudices . ’
10 Where countries use their own devices to protect their domestic industries artificially from genuine overseas competition , they must expect us to do the same .
11 Do you think you have a few views in common with your workmates or do you think that when you 're talking things come out that you kind of like minded about things , maybe because of the job you 're doing , and the place you work in , you know like maybe like politics or something ,
12 And I 've got something to tell you which may make you feel the same way about me . "
13 But I do n't want you to make the same mistakes the French make here .
14 ‘ Surely it did n't hurt you to spare a few minutes for an old man ? ’
15 ‘ I would like them to score a few more — preferably against Ards on Friday . ’
16 ‘ We have always tried to co-operate with other clubs when they have wanted to switch games and would like them to do the same for us . ’
17 Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat .
18 Okay , well I did try to motivate them , motivate them to make the most of each person 's individual skills .
19 ‘ As long as you do n't mind me having a little smoke ? ’
20 Then we 'll see who eats the most Duracells !
21 I must beg you to take a few days to consider …
22 Well it would defeat you making a few bob .
23 I do remember we did a few gigs .
24 I can see it solving a few problems here .
25 Do you see yourself having the same sort of lifestyle now like James
26 Virginia , in her fifties , thinking of Vanessa at Charleston , wrote , ‘ Do you think we have the same pair of eyes , only different spectacles ? ’
27 What is required is a policy of allocating resources in such quantity and quality in favour of working class or ethnic minority groups as will enable them to have the same effective equality of opportunity in schools as middle-class children .
28 ‘ I am hoping to tie up a television documentary which will enable me to visit the former soviet Union .
29 And for his safety and yours an' all , I would suggest you do the latter , and quickly . ’
30 I thought that if I made you realise how strongly I felt you might decide you feel the same . ’
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