Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they want to continue to be ruled by communists ? |
| 2 | The following article written by , the editor of the national journal of the NCT ‘ New Generation ’ , struck a chord with the branch committee members , and we hope that you too will want to continue to be part of NCT for at least the year 1991 ! |
| 3 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you want to go to the wedding ? ’ |
| 5 | This usually takes the form of a burning pain when you pass water and the feeling you want to go to the toilet more often than usual . |
| 6 | You have to decide , right now , do you want to go to the hospital or stay here ? ’ |
| 7 | The taxi driver speaks no English and I spend a fraught moment or two wondering whether he has understood that I do n't want to go to Keflavik , but after the shorter tour of Reykjavik we arrive . |
| 8 | I do n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 9 | I really do n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 10 | I do n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 11 | But I really did n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 12 | I did n't want to be naughty , but I really did n't want to go to Combe Court . |
| 13 | I did n't want to stay there and I did n't want to go to Combe Court , cos I hate it and it smells and the Captain slobbers in his food and Christmas is horrible with no good prezzies and Annie not there . |
| 14 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been accused of wanting to send people 60 miles down the road to hospitals they do n't want to go to … of doctors not having enough money to pay for drugs … of going to close down vital wards … |
| 16 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 17 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 18 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 19 | — I told the Warden that I did n't want to go to no hospital but he never listened . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't want to go to Burnley . ’ |
| 21 | Fiona returned , pulling on a fluffy white wrap over her red silk dress , saying she really did n't want to go to the dinner and being persuaded again by her husband . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 23 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 24 | But if she does n't want to go to university … ’ |
| 25 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 26 | ( Who 'd want to go to bed with roses anyway , what a mad idea ! ) ’ |
| 27 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 28 | I did n't want to go to bed , because I did n't want to miss anything . |
| 29 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 30 | If he did n't want to go to court for a very minor offence , then you could caution him . |