Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] an " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ He just asked how you were , made me promise to keep an eye on you , then rang off , ’ she said , frowning . |
| 2 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 3 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 4 | Come , now , I mean to have an answer . ’ |
| 5 | However this time , whether or not a change of ownership makes any difference to that permission , I intend to lodge an official complaint . |
| 6 | I intend to use an external power filter . |
| 7 | The course of my life during the period from the end of 1940 until the autumn of 1945 is one of which I intend to write an account ; but this is not the place for it . |
| 8 | Bearing this in mind , I sought to develop an approach which would try to distinguish what might be termed the ‘ players ’ in an industry , from those who are not players , whom I have termed the ‘ commentators ’ : |
| 9 | I failed to deposit an accurate simulacrum of her visage and demeanour with the left-luggage clerk of memory ; but I think she was in a shirt of a hue between sage and lovage , atop grey stone-washed 501s , green socks and a ridiculously unaesthetic pair of trainers . |
| 10 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 11 | I tried waving an arm to attract attention but only a weak flap of a hand was achieved . |
| 12 | At the age of twelve , I tried to get an audition for a place in the Suffolk Junior Strings , but the man who was organising it , said : ‘ had you played the viola , you would have got in . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ In these sculptures I tried to make an eye . |
| 14 | Aye it was a difficult job but as I say to have an experience mines |
| 15 | I want to support an idealistic publication |
| 16 | ‘ I want to see an end to those days ’ , Farr-Jones adds . |
| 17 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 18 | I want to install an ornamental niche . |
| 19 | I want to put an end to every consequence of Maurice 's scheme . |
| 20 | If I want to start an affair with someone , I 'm perfectly capable of doing it without your assistance ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I want to keep an air of mystery ’ |
| 22 | Most of all I want to keep an air of mystery . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Now I want to keep an open mind . |
| 24 | Formulated in words suggested by this quotation , the question I want to find an answer to is : are there logical conditions of someone 's having the experience of seeing something as , say , blue ? |
| 25 | " I want to make an appointment to come and see him again — tomorrow . |
| 26 | ‘ You know very well that I want to make an offer to your son . |
| 27 | Er Mr Mayor there 's only one point I I I want to make an and that is this is a rather typical conservative budget . |
| 28 | ‘ I want to register an irrigation co-operative , sir . ’ |
| 29 | I want to have an an ice-cream . |
| 30 | I want to have an ice-cream . |