Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't want to hit that stuff too hard , ’ knocking his back without a qualm . |
| 2 | There is , of course , something risible about proposing that armies of 70-year-olds should come to the rescue of those older still , and by no means all of those who will be among the young elderly in the year 2010 will want to perform that role . |
| 3 | The auctioneer came to me , Oh I suppose you 'll want to borrow some money now . |
| 4 | ‘ Or do you want to sacrifice another tree ? ’ |
| 5 | You and I will want to affirm this world and its beauty and its sadness and all the colours of life — the greens and golds , the greys and the blacks — as part of the tapestry which is God 's gift to us all . |
| 6 | It fails to put forward any options for accept for erm , equal rights , for disability or race , and we think this is an omission , and if it were your intention to write a response , we would want to include that point in the response we make . |
| 7 | However we evaluate the two styles morally — and we may certainly want to agree that supportiveness is a positive good — it is evident that instrumentally they have political consequences . |
| 8 | She did n't want to swim this afternoon , but only said it was slight indigestion . ’ |
| 9 | I know I do n't want to lose this man , but I realise I will do if I ca n't sort myself out . |
| 10 | Be sure to make several copies of each text , partly because , as explained before , you do n't want to lose valuable material , and partly because texts re often of great interest to other linguists or anthropologists . |
| 11 | You may still want to lose more weight and inches , and your top priority may be to achieve a much slimmer body than you have so far . |
| 12 | They 're signalling Oh I do n't want to go that way I want the next one . |
| 13 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 14 | You do n't want to go this afternoon do you ? |
| 15 | We have joined a centralised unitary state , and at some stage we shall have to ask the people , ‘ Do you want to go this way , or do you not ? ’ |
| 16 | Do you want to go this way and have a look ? |
| 17 | It 's me that told him not to go cos I said , I did n't want to go this week and he did n't go . |
| 18 | ‘ What made you want to go this time , then ? ’ |
| 19 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 20 | And also I did n't want to see that Mercy Newbegin . |
| 21 | Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’ |
| 22 | Mada Madam Speaker my honourable friend knows well that the purpose er of what has been said and what is being considered about air strikes er is to is is to bring about er the er cessation of the sort of bombardment that we have seen in Sarajevo and I think everybody will want to see that effort successfully er completed . |
| 23 | Ooh I do n't want to see that thing . |
| 24 | Once , I was waiting at the bus stop one Sunday with my bags packed ready to go to Sheffield when Otley came running up : ‘ Do n't you want to see Fragile Earth ? |
| 25 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 26 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 27 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 28 | His wife did n't want to watch him suffer , and she wanted him to die also , and she did n't want to see any suffering . |
| 29 | They will also want to see 2,500 voting papers from another NUS election which mysteriously turned up seven years after they should have been destroyed . |
| 30 | Coun Philip Stamford Bewlay ( Con ) said he did not want to see another pub in the town centre but officers said that was not an issue the planning committee is entitled to discuss . |