Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) François Seurel , narrator , mostly sprechgesang to set scenes , describe locations and weather . |
| 2 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 3 | Both poems would require little change to make sense at any time between AD 600 and now . |
| 4 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |
| 5 | Given that we wish to give British industry the flexibility to employ part-time workers , is not this another effort by Labour to hit the people who most want to seek jobs ? |
| 6 | We inadvertently tend to reinforce individuals for keeping their ideas to themselves . |
| 7 | They do not share our sense of causality , and so tend to view events as discrete and unrelated . |
| 8 | We obviously want to avoid asset stripping and the selling on of assets at a large profit . |
| 9 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |
| 10 | Consequently , this is the least favoured method unless you especially want to echo screen output to the printer . |
| 11 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 12 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |
| 13 | But voters merely want to elect representatives who have the time and wit to run the country so they can get on with their lives in peace . |
| 14 | With Botham Wanderers already relegated and our position safe , we will adopt this carefree attitude again today so expect to see GOALS ! |
| 15 | I only want to do daddy 's pyjamas for the hospital |
| 16 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 17 | But mostly now the Saudi people only want to kill Saddam . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I only want to see Vince . |
| 19 | The hardware handshaking is always active , so if you only want to use software handshaking , you will need to wire a cable to set the handshaking lines high at all times . |
| 20 | I only want to help Lilliput ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I only want to help people , ’ he said quietly . |
| 22 | I know you live very quietly , but I would be very quiet — I only want to discuss Dante and Shakespeare and Wordsworth and Coleridge and Goethe and Schiller and Webster and Ford and Sir Thomas Browne et hoc genus omne , not forgetting of course , Christabel LaMotte and the ambitious Fairy Project . |
| 23 | They will send you a copy of your full birth certificate which should give you enough detail to start enquiries into your family history . |
| 24 | I only appear to see Leeds at Wembley or mid-week Cup games recently . |
| 25 | United lost the match in Wales , so chance to make amends at Edgar Street . |
| 26 | Those of us who 've had a bellyful of over-processed , bland , convenience foods , cardboard crispbreads and diet spreads have much cause to thank Ms Sheila Ferguson , ex-Three Degrees singer and author of a new book , Soul Food . |
| 27 | In this situation , firms find their inventories being run down involuntarily and so act to increase output . |
| 28 | Obviously , borrowers constantly seek to reduce loan spreads but if the market regards it as inadequate , participants will not be found and the loan proposal will fail . |
| 29 | Nobody inside the movement was permitted to acquire enough power or a high enough profile to challenge de Gaulle successfully . |
| 30 | As I look out of my window — the scene is as interesting to me as a Canaletto — I see the clouds suddenly begin to rise o at high speed , like a milkshake being drawn up a straw , the top layers , the fluffy stuff , going last . |