Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the therapist encouraged the couple to think of ways of being positive in their behaviour towards each other , Ann agreed to wear more attractive clothes , and Charles to show her more consideration and affection by praising her appearance , and expressing positive feelings towards her . |
| 2 | ‘ We are obviously still concerned that there allegations of pushing drugs and we intend to monitor closely any future raves at the Ulster hall . ’ |
| 3 | In 1967 the Brooklands Society was formed to preserve as much of the area as possible . |
| 4 | The Home Office will want to gather as much evidence of good practice as possible ’ . |
| 5 | They may also want to gather together other material to suit their own modifications and preferences , if any ( eg blackboard and copies of their own examples ) . |
| 6 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 7 | Blinds on their own can fit any atmosphere , particularly if windows are awkward , small or you did not want to lose too much light . |
| 8 | Later he tried to change his mind by saying to me , ‘ Do n't you want to go somewhere quieter than that , where we can talk ? ’ |
| 9 | Give this message to others in a brief , clear way : ‘ I need to talk to you about office manning ’ ; ‘ I do n't want to go away this weekend ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want to go away this weekend . ’ |
| 11 | I think Mr what I would like to see , I do n't want to go too far into the history , but I would just like to be sure that er bearing in mind this complex history given on behalf of those you are representing , that the views you are putting forward are the er current views of the Parish Council as expressed in their formal minutes . |
| 12 | He does n't want to go too far down to the South . |
| 13 | I am wondering , I suppose , although I hate to sound impossibly naïve , whether there might be anything in your religion , in your beliefs , or your understanding of belief , that might help me with this , that might help me to come to terms with it ? |
| 14 | What sorts of people tend to become politically active and who tend to remain relatively inert ? |
| 15 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 16 | Part of the problem is that most of us do n't know very much about mental illness and we tend to see very negative images around us and on television . |
| 17 | Indeed , I intend to remain very close to the development of the trust and to its inception on 1 April to ensure that all that has been promised will be delivered . |
| 18 | I do n't want to sound unduly negative , but I simply could n't see what there was to mourn . |
| 19 | I do n't want to sound overly possessive but , bloody hell , the Pentagon is my concern . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't want to sound too flame-eyed and low-blink-rate about it — and , all right , I know I 'm a real simp in many areas — but I 'd say I was way ahead of Tod on this basic question of human difference . |
| 21 | He did n't want to sound too eager and knowledgeable , but Bruno would n't believe him as a country bumpkin . |
| 22 | Why should we want to sound more professional ? |
| 23 | So I 'm I do n't want to sit here holier than thou , start preaching that erm you know things are not going to happen , because we 're all human and we all make errors . |
| 24 | And erm , we hardly got to see as much of each other , because we were like , in this group of ten people , and then , and so like one time we skied off piste , and we just had this massive snowball fight off piste , it was like really funny . |
| 25 | ‘ And you do n't want to wait that long for an identity parade ? ’ |
| 26 | We also intend to interview both male and female employees in order to explore their career aspirations and their perception of company policies and opportunities . |
| 27 | The meetings of the Association helped both to raise the consciousness of scientists and also to enforce some specialization : members expected to attend only one of the sections . |
| 28 | As this century has advanced , so investment trusts have developed to embrace more direct investment in the shares of other companies . |
| 29 | To the geologists this was ideal territory — a solid chunk of Caledonian Granite into which they planned to sink over twenty-five deep boreholes to assess the substrata . |
| 30 | Site finds therefore tend to under-represent more valuable coins . |