Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Asked to see his driving licence . ’ |
| 2 | The move comes after nearly one in four of BR 's routes failed to hit their performance targets under John Major 's new Citizen 's Charter . |
| 3 | The chartbustin' all-girl band planned to invest their pop earnings in a beauty salon . |
| 4 | But this bloke did n't want to lose his pool table . |
| 5 | He might want to see her grocery list and cross a few things off . |
| 6 | Do we want to see him hammer nails up his nostrils ? |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State agree with Duncan McNeill , whom he appointed to promote his hospital trusts , that trust status provides an alternative to operating and remaining within the mainstream national health service ? |
| 8 | The trampling movements are intended to stimulate her milk flow and when these are done by the wool-sucking cat they reveal that it is treating the piece of woollen material as a surrogate mother . |
| 9 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 10 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 11 | Mr Endara said he planned to continue his hunger strike to support a civil disobedience campaign to press General Noriega to step down . |
| 12 | Once he dared to knock on Emmett 's door late at night and asked to borrow his dress suit . |
| 13 | A patient who claimed he almost died after a doctor failed to diagnose his heart attack , has been speaking about his battle against medical red-tape . |
| 14 | This could be the girl whom the Yard were looking for , and he had better do everything very quickly indeed , including finding his Chief , who would then want to find his Chief Constable and notify Scotland Yard . |
| 15 | Other life insurers sought to increase their distribution networks , either increasing their branches or their personnel in a variety of ways in order to market their products in increasingly competitive environments . |
| 16 | For example , a historian will be interested in finding out what is written on a sheet of medieval vellum , whereas an archaeologist will want to know what animal skin was used , how the vellum was made , and what pigments were used for the ink . |
| 17 | When they agreed to halve their poster advertising , they chose a base year when spending was unnaturally high due to a competition war . |
| 18 | A survey by Spectrum Communication Group showed that 70 per cent of the companies questioned intended to increase their budget allocation to conferences for 1985/86 , whereas only 19 per cent estimated that their budgets would be decreased . |
| 19 | He should have arranged to meet his friend Billy in the pub instead of in the cold street by the river , but Billy had insisted . |
| 20 | Napoli failed to find their midweek scoring touch and went down 2-1 at home to an impressive Inter Milan in Channel 4 's latest afternoon offering . |
| 21 | That includes the beleaguered MIPS chip , which failed to increase its 9% market share between 1990 and 1991 . |
| 22 | From the middle of the decade onwards the two largest Third World countries , China and India , failed to increase their grain production . |
| 23 | In this study , most of the patients with severe constipation failed to increase their motility index after eating . |
| 24 | ‘ In this country we tend to neglect our manufacturing industries in favour of service industries such as banking and insurance . |
| 25 | I do n't want to offend my fisher friends , but is it still worthwhile ? |
| 26 | If we are to continue to meet our welfare task , our target for the Wings Appeal must increase year by year . |
| 27 | We want to see their country benefit from all of this . |
| 28 | Come along , darling — I want to see your art display . ’ |
| 29 | We want to see your wedding dress , your coloured combs ! ’ |
| 30 | Local plans will need to support their service development strategy with detailed plans for investments in premises ; in staffing and training ; in the organisational development of practices and community services ( ‘ teambuilding ’ ) ; and in improved management . |