Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 2 | The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution . |
| 3 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
| 4 | Post-production editing is a boon if you are uncertain as to what you will want to include in the final version of the video . |
| 5 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 6 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 7 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 8 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 9 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 10 | Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End . |
| 11 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
| 13 | We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ? |
| 14 | " Jenny , I do n't want to sound like an old auntie , but you are not being very sensible about Matthew . " |
| 15 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
| 16 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
| 17 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |
| 18 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 19 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 20 | But who 'd want to work in the small labs if the more exciting stuff went elsewhere ? " |
| 21 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 22 | We would n't want to comment on the comparative merits of your Minitex and Barbara Smith 's Erka which we show below but it is interesting that the Minitex cost £42.10s.0d in 1950 and the Erka 45 guineas in 1960 . |
| 23 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 24 | Do you want to know about a spectacular firework display ? |
| 25 | I mean , who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles ? |
| 26 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
| 27 | If the law was ruled unconstitutional , as was widely anticipated , Ada refused to say whether he would seek to appeal to the Supreme Court . |
| 28 | Apart from codifying the rights of the individual , a Bill of Rights would iron out the curious anomaly to which Lord Taylor referred and might in addition save time and money because far fewer decisions by British judges would need to go to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 29 | There must be thousands like me who do n't need to go to the whingeing depths of Germaine Greer and her ilk , or spend time and money trying to look eternally young like Joan Collins and Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 30 | ‘ To catch it they would need to go in the opposite direction first to Thornaby station , where parking is limited . |