Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 2 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 3 | What do I want to get out of a job ? |
| 4 | Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 6 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 7 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 8 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 9 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 11 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 12 | What else do I need to consider along with the staff ? |
| 13 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 14 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 15 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 16 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 17 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 18 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back . |
| 20 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 21 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 22 | On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks . |
| 23 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 24 | Next year , I want to carry on with the course , and do my Highers as well . ’ |
| 25 | When I think of my past blunders here , I want to turn round at the airport and catch the next plane home . |
| 26 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 27 | ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again . |
| 28 | I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering . |
| 29 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 30 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |