Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes you come across patients you feel have been coached on what to say , or who just claim to be residents . |
| 2 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a life-long ambition of mine to be a chauffeur and I just want to be given a chance . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 5 | ‘ I first made the Cup team in 1981 and I desperately want to be in next year 's . ’ |
| 6 | And I still want to be that person ; I want to be happy ; I want to look good ; I want to command the situation I 'm in . |
| 7 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 8 | Mr Taylor will know the position and I still expect to be named in the squad on Tuesday . |
| 9 | And I then want to be able to collect information on sources of pollution around their sites , if they notice particularly busy roads , things like that . |
| 10 | For the record , Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard , and in accepting that the effects of lead on children 's intelligence is real . |
| 11 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 12 | I 've been very poor , I 've cleaned toilets for Mecca , I 've slept on Euston station , and I never want to be like that again . |
| 13 | ‘ But I came late into the first-class game , I 'm 28 now and I really want to be in the big time before I end my career . ’ |
| 14 | There are all the pleasurable things that the ex-smoker has learned to associate with smoking , and which now have to be faced alone . |
| 15 | ‘ CHRIST ! ’ said Lucy hurtling to her feet , stalking the floor like Mildred Pierce , ‘ all your talent and you just want to be a bloody lover ! |
| 16 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 17 | You want the weight to stay off and you also want to be able to eat a reasonable amount of food after the diet without putting on weight . |
| 18 | And I was going to consult you , but really Algeria is a long way away , and you never seem to be in Paris … so , yes , I sold some rather boring stock that was as safe as Fort Knox and about as immobile , and invested in de Chavigny . |
| 19 | Both our customers and our prospects are feeling the squeeze , and we generally seem to be at the painful end of it . |
| 20 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 21 | THERE 'S a lot of potential in these locations and we always need to be trying to get people to ‘ get connected ’ . |
| 22 | Children need to know what to do in these cases if they are to get at the truth , and they also need to be shown that print is not necessarily infallible . |
| 23 | The capital city , Jakarta , accounts for around 40 per cent of the Indonesian market but there are Guinness drinkers on many of the 13,677 islands in the archipelago and they also need to be served . |
| 24 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 25 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 26 | In order for most families to benefit from the types of prevention activities described , they probably need to be made available to all families on a voluntary basis , and they probably need to be relatively non-obtrusive and in essence , common . |
| 27 | The stigma of disqualification tends to linger on well past the point where offenders have served their official punishment , and they often continue to be excluded from law-abiding society rather than being reintegrated into it . |
| 28 | And they still appear to be ‘ normal ’ . |
| 29 | We have not answered the questions it raises , and they still need to be confronted . ’ |
| 30 | Leaving them in working position when knitting stocking stitch or other stitch patterns will cause wear and they then need to be replaced more frequently . |