Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 2 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 3 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 4 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 5 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 6 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 7 | We are not advocates of the ‘ prosperity gospel ’ , but we do recognise that the people God definitely seems to entrust with finances are those whom he can trust to hold them with an open hand . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You may want to choose one with a reflective strip incorporated into the design . |
| 10 | Put a tried and tested American management development technique together with English county cricket , and you might expect to get something of a cultural googly . |
| 11 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 12 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 13 | The T&G would like to support her with a clear conscience and every left-of-centre statement from her helps . |
| 14 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |
| 15 | Occasionally you might like to indulge yourself in a little olive oil for example on salads ) and this is fine as an occasional treat . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart . |
| 17 | ‘ If I have to look at you , ’ Aunt Emily said without rancour , ‘ I should like to see you in a new dress . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | MR IAN ROWDON OF HALCROW WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU FOR AN INFORMAL CHAT/INTRODUCTION . |
| 20 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 21 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | If you would like to nominate someone for a future issue , send the details to at . |
| 24 | This is the BBC , and we 'd like to welcome you to a new series of Jackanory , which this year promises to bring you stories about subjects such as homosexuality and Aids . |
| 25 | I am enjoying my writing career and would like to develop it into a full-time career if I can earn enough money . |
| 26 | You mean you would like to present it in a different way ? |
| 27 | I 'd like to get you on a slow boat to China ? |
| 28 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
| 29 | Take a walk around the streets one day and have a look at all the innocent objects lying about which you could use to defend yourself in a desperate situation . |
| 30 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |