Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'ud do to buy us a few drinks with , Sam , ’ a woman called from the far end of the smoke-blackened room . |
| 3 | Conservative Members do not want to hear what a former Conservative leader has to say . |
| 4 | I would like to say that we should be concentrating on traffic management schemes which included traffic calming and take this I 'd like to give you a few examples . |
| 5 | One might think that , in those circumstances , Ministers would begin to ask themselves a few basic questions , such as , ’ Where have we gone wrong in Scotland ? |
| 6 | I should like to ask her a few questions , such as what she really feels about the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We would like to ask you a few questions about Andrew Livesey . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd like to ask you a few questions , Miss Cassidy ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Fraser , I 'd like to ask you a few questions if I may . ’ |
| 10 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 11 | Now if you say it in an ex , in a , in a do you want to give me a few examples ? |
| 12 | And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing . |
| 13 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 14 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
| 15 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 16 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 17 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 18 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 20 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 22 | I strongly recommend that we leave such arduous duties to your two companions , who will undoubtedly have asked themselves the same question . ’ |
| 23 | Must have cost him a few thousand to have it done . ’ |
| 24 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 25 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Because if you have , the Company might want to ask you a few questions . ’ |