Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iranians , of course , had little interest in vacations , but North could also make them wonderful offers in the currency they understood , TOWs : ‘ If you get the hostages out , we 'll send you a million of them . ’ |
| 2 | That would make me some kind of accessory after the fact , would n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | To realise that a crippled leg does n't make me some sort of oddity . |
| 4 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | As they sat in the kitchen , Jonadab glanced across at George and remarked , ‘ While we 're a bit slack afore haytime starts , Aah thought as 'ow thoo and me could deliver them two pairs of shires ti Stephen 's . ’ |
| 6 | You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been so unnaturally virtuous lately that you can surely grant me two kisses in one day ! ’ |
| 8 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
| 9 | I 'll build my own museum in Pittsburgh , or someplace else , or give my paintings to the National Gallery in London . |
| 10 | It would be unfair to pretend that , but I do not want my hon. Friend to be carried away by the importance of it . |
| 11 | ‘ I should n't want my little brother to be upset . ’ |
| 12 | But I do n't think my long walk through the forest in an April dawn was . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall make my final decision in the morning , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I can make my own way to my digs , ’ she said with great dignity . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll make my own way from there . ’ |
| 16 | You only need to drop me in town , and I can make my own way from there ! ’ |
| 17 | I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events . |
| 18 | Look , I 've no money for a hotel so I 'd better make my own arrangements for tonight . |
| 19 | I shall treat my own family in the same way , disregarding the fiction that my children are in some mystical way an extension of myself . |
| 20 | This suggests , I think , that I must refine my earlier criterion in the following way : it is wrong for a person to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desire , and only allowable for them to be treated , with their consent , as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , if no other means for their satisfaction can be made available . |
| 21 | ‘ Just you tap away , Mr Auguste , and if you 'it the little feller on 'is back you 'll 'ear 'is 'ollow sound like . ’ |
| 22 | I can certainly reassure my hon. Friend in that regard . |
| 23 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 24 | You can catch them 8 December at the Old Athenaeum , Glasgow ( 041-227-5511 ) , 9 December at the Music Hall , Aberdeen ( 0224-641-122 ) and 10 December at the Queens Hall , Edinburgh ( 031-668-2019 ) . |
| 25 | Rest assured I will not buy my own happiness at the expense of … of another 's . ’ |
| 26 | I would n't trust my peptic ulcer to him , that I would n't . |
| 27 | I can not substitute my own view of the evidence , which I have not heard . |
| 28 | ‘ I know the circumstances were n't the best , but , even so , I 'd like to know what makes you doubt my sincere proposal of marriage . ’ |
| 29 | Advice from England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has helped me survive my first crisis as a manager . |
| 30 | We 'll discuss my brilliant notion in more elegant surroundings . ’ |