Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 2 | ‘ But right now , all I want is to lead a normal life . ’ |
| 3 | If what you want is to peruse a publication like Big Women , you 'll find it in a discreet magazine rack in a corner of the Smoking Room . |
| 4 | He bragged to friends : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper . |
| 5 | Chilling words of knife maniac : All I want is to kill a cop |
| 6 | Nicholas Vernage told a friend : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ , an Old Bailey jury heard . |
| 7 | Mr Nutting added : ‘ Grenfell admitted that in his presence Vernage had often said ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ All I really want is to have a home of my own and for my children to be happy . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There was the ubiquitous confidentiality clause which we understand was to hide a two year rent free period . |
| 11 | When you start is to do a thing , put that mallet down like that and then line up the which you need to go . |
| 12 | Again , yo you , the figure staying the same , all you do is to move a decimal point two places . |
| 13 | What you do is to fix a line of battens across the wall ( or right round the room ) just above skirting board level , securing them with partly-driven masonry nails so you can remove them later when the adhesive has set . |
| 14 | It 's no good preaching sermons to young people about the value of labour if all they do is to guide a piece of metal into a press and tread on a pedal a hundred times a day … |
| 15 | When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad . |
| 16 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 17 | The best way to ensure that you review is to adopt a routine that you can swing into either alone or with others . |
| 18 | The procedure for administering the EAT is to elicit a series of 68 non-imitated words from the child in response to a set of pictures . |
| 19 | Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor . |
| 20 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
| 21 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 22 | The ideal of the initiate is to become a ‘ star ’ or one with the Gods ; to achieve union with the natural forces which created him or her . |
| 23 | The aims of the Conservative discourse , we have argued , have been to develop a law and order society . |
| 24 | ‘ But what I really need is to get a job . |
| 25 | What we need is to find a safe place soon , and I 'd rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we ca n't . " |
| 26 | It 's one of the most basic needs we all have is to have a roof over our heads . |