Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ca n't help it : Do you want me to go into the other room ? |
| 2 | Do you want me to come on the nineteenth as well ? |
| 3 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 4 | You do n't want them emerging with the queasy feeling they could get whacked over the head on their way back to the car . |
| 5 | He promised ( i ) to drop immediately the 10 per cent tax on imports ; ( ii ) to eliminate Central Bank financing of the National Treasury , except for guaranteed financing provisions , and to streamline fiscal accounts to avoid deficits ; ( iii ) to combat speculation ; ( iv ) to end private and public monopolies ; ( v ) to introduce tax reforms at the beginning of the new year aimed at simplifying the tax system and making it more progressive to " make everyone participate in the national effort " ; and ( vi ) to carry out an administrative reform in the state sector with some state companies to be privatized . |
| 6 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 7 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |
| 8 | ‘ Craig is my first-born son and I love him dearly , ’ she paused , ‘ but , after what he 's done , Craig must consider himself disowned by the entire Grenfell family . ’ |
| 9 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 10 | Having released a highly successful book of Russian posters the renowned publisher Aurora , which publishes books for export , does not know what to do with the rich reserve of editorial material it has accumulated over recent years , and it has been forced to sell transparencies and texts . |
| 11 | You know , we do n't know what to do with the bloody bit . |
| 12 | She does n't know what to do with the used one . |
| 13 | I do n't know what to do for the best . |
| 14 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 15 | She did n't know what to do for the best . |
| 16 | She 'll know what to do for the best . ’ |
| 17 | But even you do n't know what to do about the third , do you ? |
| 18 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 19 | He would n't know what to do in the outside world . |
| 20 | We are equally ready to project this highly idealized picture of ourselves onto our own past and do not know what to make of the weird mystical ‘ fantasies ’ in which our ancestors seem to have indulged . |
| 21 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 22 | The Irish Guards would give them support from the right flank , while the Welsh would advance from the left . |
| 23 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 24 | –One would show them falling at the usual speed and hear the laughs . ’ |
| 25 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 26 | By working with the NHS in this way , AA Hospital Plus can give you access to the highest standards of health care — at a very affordable monthly cost . |
| 27 | This will entitle you to benefit from the Reciprocal Health Agreements which exist between Common Market countries . |
| 28 | We have a need for regional economic initiatives and what help do we get from the British Government , right ? |
| 29 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 30 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |