Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
2 | Oh we 're not , we do n't need to take it till the next one . |
3 | When the next version arrives , you might want to install it in a separate subdirectory ( in case it has a hidden bug ) and keep the old version for a few months . |
4 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
5 | In a recent NCT survey , 19 out of 20 British people said they approved of breastfeeding in principle , but did n't like to see it in a public place . |
6 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
7 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
8 | Well it 's it 's like you trying to say you 're gon na boil a pan of potatoes and you 've got ta keep turning it off every two minutes , cos it 'll be getting too hot ! |
9 | But would she like to do it with a stranger and one so strange as Leon who came , not just from ten miles off , but a thousand ? |
10 | If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way . |
11 | I am enjoying my writing career and would like to develop it into a full-time career if I can earn enough money . |
12 | You mean you would like to present it in a different way ? |
13 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
14 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
15 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
16 | When you can use video as another classroom aid , when and how it suits the language programme you are teaching , you almost certainly wo n't want to use it in the same way at the same time each week . |
17 | Its success was very evident and I would hope to keep it as a regular feature of the conference . |
18 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
19 | He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie . |
20 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
21 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |
22 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
23 | The film was a Western , and without guidance Clara would have dismissed it as a childish frivolity , a glorified version of The Lone Ranger . |
24 | We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures . |
25 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
26 | Now that we have video in the classroom the opportunity to focus on the visual is clearly there , so should we attempt to include it in a systematic way ? |
27 | By the end of the interview she will have plaited it into a handy living-room rug , but for now Susanna wants to talk about her NME photo session . |
28 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
29 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
30 | But damn him — it was bad enough that he be high-handed and autocratic when they were alone together — did he really have to carry it into the public arena too ? |