Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 2 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 3 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to join a scientific team . |
| 5 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , but the thing is , what it 's , what it 's doing is that , they want you to have a normal conversation on . |
| 7 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 8 | ‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary . |
| 9 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 10 | We do n't believe he was infectious before May 21 and we expect him to make a complete recovery . |
| 11 | Philip Giles fell more than thirty feet onto a hillside while on holdiay in California but doctors expect him to make a full recovery . |
| 12 | ‘ Because they want everybody to have a Big Daddy with his leather belt keeping 'em in order — less for them to do , ’ he said . |
| 13 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 14 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 15 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 16 | " The Foreign and Commonwealth Office want us to take a Danish biologist for two or three days next month . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , I want us to have a little talk now . |
| 18 | In order to train new teachers and support qualified teachers with further In-Service training , we rely heavily on Grant Aid from the Sports Council , who , in turn , expect us to show a steady increase in the number of Society members . |
| 19 | Other considerations of a public character may be present in the mind of the Secretary of State which persuade him to take a different view from the judges . |
| 20 | The few examples of her work that exist show her to have a strong sense of composition and a bold yet sensitive line . |
| 21 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |
| 22 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 23 | The woman told me that they normally like you to book a few days in advance so that you have some time to think it over in case you wanted to change your mind . |
| 24 | If you would like to see the New Home range in action , send for a list of stockists and visit one to collect a free sample of embroidery . |
| 25 | I 'll ring Bourne and get him to organise a small team . |
| 26 | On the one hand , two fans from a papermill implore him to become a dissident figurehead : on the other hand , two state policmen want him to sign a document denying authorship of the original article . |
| 27 | Buy a car maintenance manual and teach yourself to install a catalytic converter . |
| 28 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 29 | Although some societies allow you to open a postal account at their branch , all further dealings have to be through the post so you must be prepared for the occasional delay in getting at your cash . |
| 30 | Special recessed covers are available which allow you to fit a permanent floor covering . |