Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 2 | ‘ John is gone across the Liverpool Plains to the Namoi ’ , wrote Eliza to her mother on 6 December from Yarrundi , ‘ he expects to find much to interest him there . |
| 3 | If you wish to obtain such leave you should first approach your Manager , who is responsible for deciding whether to give permission and whether any absence authorised will be paid or unpaid . |
| 4 | As is argued at length in the Kingman Report , substantial programmes of teacher training are required if teachers are themselves to know enough to enable them to design with confidence programmes of study about language . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to buy this to get it . |
| 6 | So we 'd just jolly well got to grow enough to feed us . |
| 7 | ‘ You must appreciate Stephen is jealous and kicks up a fuss every time I even suggest seeing you , but I do n't intend to let that stop me in future . |
| 8 | But they do n't have to do that do they ? |
| 9 | No you do n't want to do that do you really ? |
| 10 | O nine O four serious talk O nine O four six four one six four one erm if you 'd like to do that give me a call . |
| 11 | And she tells you to do that does she ? |
| 12 | I wanted to do that to show you diverts completely overwrite what is in the semi-permanent background . |
| 13 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |
| 14 | You can move them anyway you want to Sean , it 's up to you to do that to work them . |
| 15 | Is that sort of thing , presumably we 've got to get the racking people back in to do that have we ? |
| 16 | So the teams have got to do that have they ? |
| 17 | The difference is he does n't need to do that to get it all in one go |
| 18 | I refused to let this worry me . |
| 19 | If you sold the whole of this that 's the earning and you 've got to do this excuse me , in three weeks . |
| 20 | When a member of parliament was considered to be in a position to influence senior officers ' careers , he might , however , find himself offered minor patronage posts to use as he saw fit , without having to do much to seek them . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll want to analyse this to confirm it , ’ he continued , carefully using a pen to roll one of the small carvings off the edge of the table and into the canister . |
| 22 | If he felt resentment that the Yaxlee family network had failed him , he was n't of a nature to allow this to embitter him unduly . |
| 23 | The fact that such allegations could be made under the cloak of privilege , and the victim has had no right of redress or to cross-examine those making them , has been a blot on our system of justice . |
| 24 | erm I 've got to get that done I 've got to alter the christening dress alter the , cuffs on the little jacket and make a bib do you think I 'll get all that done in three months ? |
| 25 | As there is little doubt that digital is destined to eventually take over from analogue systems , HDMAC would seem to have little to recommend it to anyone but the European TV companies who are already financially committed to it . |
| 26 | It all started when she saw a hamster in a pet shop and decided to get another to keep him company . |
| 27 | On the surface this structure would seem to have much to commend it , guaran-teeing , as it does , every child a right to an educational curriculum of distinctive breadth and depth irrespective of the type of school he or she attends and irrespective of the talents the child possesses . |
| 28 | If a gradation system has an effect of this kind , it would seem to have much to commend it . |
| 29 | This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries . |
| 30 | To attempt such change you need an accurate sense of what opportunities and risks are involved . |