Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may want to instruct him to say each pair twice all the way through , without you having to ask for a repeat each time . |
| 2 | Also bear in mind that you might want to catch your fish one day , so make their hiding places accessible or removable . |
| 3 | Essays will be a central part of your work , both during the course and finally in examinations where you will need to use them to demonstrate historical knowledge , skills and thought . |
| 4 | If at the time the issue arises the patient still has capacity to decide , they can not only explore the scope of his decision with the patient , but can seek to persuade him to alter that decision . |
| 5 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 6 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 7 | What seems to be of more use to people are specific things they can do to help them achieve these states . |
| 8 | When the Minister had ended the meeting with the words , ‘ Now , Mr Sanders , what can we do to persuade you to put more investment in Ireland ? ’ the Englishman had replied , ‘ The best advocate you could have , Minister , to influence more investment in your country , is a local plant manager who consistently turns in good results , year after year . |
| 9 | Did you f did you feel did you feel safe living in the flats now ? |
| 10 | As for centre backs I 've no idea — ideally I 'd like to see him give half wit and Weatherall a good go along with Tinkler , Forrester and Sharp as I really ca n't see us winning the league after Saturdays shite performance . |
| 11 | Myself , I 'd like to see you take another try at Balaam . ’ |
| 12 | Then I would much like to know what caused that explosion in the engine-room . |
| 13 | Er well Susan 's very much into music and erm I think she thinks she 'd like to earn her living that way but it 's a very hard way to earn a living . |
| 14 | Algy must remember to ask you to come next time I give a little party for her . |
| 15 | I do not want to do anything to jeopardise that process . |
| 16 | Mr Tondut of Roo Management expressed outrage at the difficulties conservationists caused him and was quoted in the national press as saying , ‘ I do n't want to do anything to damage these houses . |
| 17 | If you make college too comfortable nobody will ever want to leave it to do proper work . |
| 18 | There were accusations last night that doctors at the hospital should have realised she had classic symptoms of the disorder . |
| 19 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 20 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 22 | Listen to what they say — maybe some place coming free soon , maybe some place they could have let you have three months back but it went to someone else . |
| 23 | As I say if they took my wages into consideration they would have let us buy next door even . |
| 24 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 25 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 26 | Married to a sickly wife , then having to cope as a widower with a daughter who suffered fits frequently , finding work difficult to obtain , Thomas Titford must have felt he had enough crosses to bear for one lifetime . |
| 27 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 28 | We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway . |
| 29 | I was — like Flora with her mother — in the stupid position of being unable to put the one argument that would have made her feel some sympathy for me . |
| 30 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |