Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shops in town do n't want to know when you ask for a toilet . |
| 2 | Your mother will want to know where they came from . |
| 3 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
| 4 | And then I came here which was quite amazing because I did n't want to come here I wanted to be er like James Herriott and go somewhere really rural |
| 5 | ( Students may like to consider where they stand on this issue . ) |
| 6 | She thought the name faintly familiar , and faintly Scandinavian , but she did not like to ask where it came from , in case she should have known . |
| 7 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 8 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll just have to see how it responds to treatment . ’ |
| 10 | We 'll just have to see how it goes on Sunday . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't happen to know where it came from , do you ? ’ |
| 12 | In Chapter 13 I will try to explain why I agree with him on this point . |
| 13 | How does she manage to cry whenever she wants to ? |
| 14 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |
| 15 | My eyes filled up with water , I did n't want to stay there I wanted to be with my mum . |
| 16 | Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from . |