Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while .
2 I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval .
3 you know try and get Sometimes in an examination they 'll give you funny numbers like two point five but they tend to work 'em out for you .
4 The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum .
5 There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’
6 Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject .
7 The other thing is to talk it over with your line manager , so that if you 've picked something up you want to implement yourself back at , in the workplace then
8 " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . "
9 So now you want to unload her on to the wretched Miss Plimsoll in the top form where she will cause even more chaos ? ’
10 You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day .
11 Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing .
12 ‘ He had a terrible problem which he could n't talk about but I want to sort it out for him . ’
13 you want to talk them back to safety ;
14 I only want to pick something up from Union Street , so it 's on the way . ’
15 He , it says John Wainwright , there we are if you want to pick them up by John Wainwright , that 's where they are .
16 I mean , if the bandits on the way here were anything to go by ( ‘ here' , if you want to look it up in your schoolgirl atlas , is somewhere near the Mocapra ) why should the Indians keep their word ?
17 Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S.
18 Oh you want to fetch it down to a board technic
19 Others want first editions from greed for rarity and will pay almost any price to secure it , and yet others because they want to put one over on other collectors .
20 ‘ I want to put something back into the game that has given me a good life . ’
21 ‘ Cricket gave me so much that I want to put something back into the game and teaching the youngsters how to play is a rewarding way of doing it .
22 We want to put it back in to .
23 I want to put you under for at least forty-eight hours .
24 The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’
25 I want to let you in on a somewhat embarrassing secret , which is now a secret no longer !
26 Manufacturers are hurriedly bringing out Gulf war model kits and war games to satisfy the armchair generals who want to fight it out for themselves .
27 Voters of conservative inclination should be on guard against demolition squads from other parties which want to knock it about in order to prove their radicalism .
28 Their houses , the tall , crumbling tenements with their cracked roof tiles and their creaking balconies huddle together round the church as if they want to shoulder it out of the way .
29 I 'm inviting you to consider how far a Christian should go in forgiving and to how far a Christian organisation like this school should go , in showing forgiveness er I just want to kick you off with one or two points on each of those .
30 which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so
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