Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 2 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 3 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The T&G would like to support her with a clear conscience and every left-of-centre statement from her helps . |
| 7 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart . |
| 9 | ‘ If I have to look at you , ’ Aunt Emily said without rancour , ‘ I should like to see you in a new dress . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am enjoying my writing career and would like to develop it into a full-time career if I can earn enough money . |
| 15 | You mean you would like to present it in a different way ? |
| 16 | I 'd like to get you on a slow boat to China ? |
| 17 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | And at the end of that fifty thousand years , if that 's what it is , the populations are sufficiently different that I 'd think you 'd want to put them into a different species if — I mean how are you to know , but I mean it 's a reasonable judgement . |
| 20 | You certainly would n't want to put them in a different species , at least as far as you can judge from their shells . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't want to put her under a great deal of pressure after what she 's been through . |
| 22 | They still said that he talked much too big , but they did stop treating him as a scruffy nonentity . |
| 23 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 24 | Its success was very evident and I would hope to keep it as a regular feature of the conference . |
| 25 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 26 | For example , while the newcomers may fail to understand the skill and local status of the farm worker , they do not wish to treat him as a social outcast — this would run counter to the notion of community with which many newcomers strongly identify . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 30 | The film was a Western , and without guidance Clara would have dismissed it as a childish frivolity , a glorified version of The Lone Ranger . |