Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |
| 2 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 4 | So I asked Dad , it took me ages , and he said , " What do you want to go on the Pill for ? " |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't want to go into the Army at all , ’ he will tell you . |
| 6 | As soon as the redundancies were announced , just over half of those who retired before the pension age decided that they did not want to go through the process of trying to find work . |
| 7 | I I I do n't want to go down the road to the same extent that they 've done , when they put us into debt by fifty er fifty billion o o o o o o o just on on on one day , but I 'm sure that there is a a strong case to look |
| 8 | I wanted a drink , but I did n't want to go to a pub at that time of the evening , when the rush would be on , and the serious drinkers getting down to it . |
| 9 | ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |
| 11 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 12 | If you do n't want to go to the expense of buying them , check out the travel section at your local library . |
| 13 | I think it 'll be a waste , and I do n't want to go to the expense of |
| 14 | Since he wanted to delay the ceremony , but did n't want to go to the trouble of desecrating any graves , he only had one option . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if anyone came in for me I would n't want to go before the end of the season . |
| 16 | It was as if he did n't actually want to go near the scene of the crime and I could n't blame him . |
| 17 | Over the back of the 18th hole is out-of-bounds ; you do n't want to go in the bunker on the right short of the green where Graham finished up , so Sandy played it left-to-right . |
| 18 | how could anybody want to go in the army in nineteen ninety two |
| 19 | In my pocket I have the key he lent me , but if Jamie is not there I do n't want to sit in the wreckage of his flat till he finally decides to show up from the pub . |
| 20 | You 'll want to wait till the end of the month before I put mine in |
| 21 | Do you want to write on the back of |
| 22 | In his letter he stated : ’ Such a development will cause me no little difficulty — especially from the SNP ! if you and Douglas Hurd judge that the UK 's overall interests will be best served then I would not want to stand in the way of UKAEA 's involvement . ’ |
| 23 | Does anybody want to know about the cost of telephone calls ? |
| 24 | Would she want to know about the flowering of the pink camellia and its glossy leaves , about the goat running away , about the double-yolked egg ? |
| 25 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 26 | ‘ They 'd probably need to go for a week in the Bahamas afterwards , just to get over it . ’ |
| 27 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 28 | I would of course have to write to Miss Kenton to tell her I might be passing by ; I would also need to see to the matter of the costumes . |
| 29 | Most people would think that an accomplished director of commercials would n't need to sit on the bottom of the ocean taking pictures of some of the World 's most dangerous creatures . |
| 30 | In other words , does public investment follow private , and thereby exacerbate such unevenness , or does it act to compensate for the lack of private capital ? |