Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want me to ask a different question ? |
| 2 | Someone who tells me an apparently irrelevant fact may well want me to deduce a hidden inference in it , a proposition they prefer not to make explicit . |
| 3 | If you believe in your children you do n't want them to do a dull job just to earn money . ’ |
| 4 | I presume he must also want them to have a happy death . |
| 5 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 6 | Can not you trust me to ensure a square deal and to ensure even justice between man and man ? |
| 7 | She did not want to talk to her friend about Jamie , and she did not trust herself to hold a lengthy conversation with Bridget without mentioning his visit . |
| 8 | And secondly , if she did n't see what she thought she was going to see , she would n't trust herself to keep a straight face . |
| 9 | How the hell does he expect me to keep a straight pen ? |
| 10 | ‘ We do set study leave requirements , we do require them to pay study leave tuition fees for the first attempt , we do require them to pay examination fees and we do expect them to pay a reasonable salary . ’ |
| 11 | Likewise , there is no reason why adjectives which are restrictive in attributive position should not be acceptable if used , say , predicatively with the same nouns ; only in that case , we do not normally expect them to have a restrictive value . |
| 12 | People who continued to hope that their government would do nothing to help a black regime were only silenced by rumours that a Russian Ilyushin , laden with Libyan dead and wounded , had refuelled at Kufra airport . |
| 13 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 14 | Indeed it will probably be harmful , for at the very least the interviewer will expect you to take a positive interest in the job on offer and in the company . |
| 15 | They ca n't really expect him to have a physical game this afternoon can they with David Speedy ? |
| 16 | I could n't bring myself to tell a small boy of his age that his pet was probably going to die . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was a show of support for his disciplining of Gilchrist ; perhaps there was the feeling that Worrell had drifted away from the hub of West Indies cricket ; or perhaps once again the selectors simply could not bring themselves to appoint a black man . |
| 18 | The second list tells you which foods naturally contain those items — but remember , if you really can not bring yourself to eat a particular range of foods , it is always possible to take the lacking vitamin in tablet form . |
| 19 | Can you bring yourself to marry a poor doctor , be his wife , and share his burdens ? |
| 20 | However , policies of positive integration such as the CAP , which impinge upon trading relationships , can blur the CU issue and can incline us to exclude a particular class of trade . |
| 21 | So many people have an interest in this topic and would therefore expect us to spend a good amount of time on it . |
| 22 | Mr Gorbachev would like them to do a great deal more . |
| 23 | ‘ Would you like me to organize a small party to go downstairs and get what bed-coverings we can ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It would not occur me to drink a low-alcohol beer , ’ says Alison , a 23-year-old sales assistant . |
| 25 | Although these are still in draft form , the Lead Body will use them to prepare a new framework for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 26 | The risk that the others would use them to get a political voice was a risk that had to be taken . |
| 27 | Even if a firm has roubles in a Kazakh bank , it can not necessarily use them to pay a Russian supplier . |
| 28 | Today I would like you to take a small piece of card which you will keep for your eyes only . |
| 29 | I 'd like you to do a proper job . |
| 30 | ‘ I would like you to do a little service for me , and you will do it . |