Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to miss them growing up . ’ |
| 2 | I did n't stay to see it happen , just went as far up the fields as I could go . |
| 3 | that 's better really , and we surely do n't want to lose them do we ? |
| 4 | Oh my god , there 's remembering things , erm I 'm hoping to , ok I do n't , I do n't want to go you know it 's too early |
| 5 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 6 | ‘ Impressionable teenagers use the Arts Centre all the time and I do n't want to see them confronted by this sort of filth . |
| 7 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 8 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |
| 9 | She did n't want to see him leave . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's because he 's my friend that I do n't want to see him hurt . |
| 11 | No matter what he got up to , Constance did n't want to see him damaged : it was the women she blamed , the tarts who ran after him . |
| 12 | ‘ Now I wo n't come down on him like a ton of bricks if he misses chances but I do n't want to see him becoming uptight and letting other aspects of his game suffer if things do n't go right — as against Norway . |
| 13 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 14 | One white lone mother in my study noted that her mother was also a woman coping alone on a very limited income : ‘ she 'd rather put us first but I do n't want to see her go without . ’ |
| 15 | She 's so damned intent on following in Chrissie 's footsteps … do you want to see her end up in a box , as well ? ’ |
| 16 | The is quite difficult to , to work it out and , and analysis these people , you know , when you do n't want to see themselves watching people knowing them to watch Dynasty or Dallas or something , so they on purpose watch very interesting documentary . |
| 17 | Clearly , I do n't want to see us having just an open ended thing , that every time they get into trouble , we bail them out , but I do think that we need to give breathing space now , until we can come with a , a , a decent set of proposals for the future of the building . |
| 18 | I do n't want to see it end in tragedy . ’ |
| 19 | And frankly I think it and I hope to God that John I d I know he does n't want to see it happen to him , I hope to God it does n't . |
| 20 | ‘ We want to see a working countryside and we do n't want to see it fossilised so it 's almost like a theme park . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Nana , do n't want to see it 'gain , ’ yelled Celia through her tears . |
| 22 | And above all he does n't want to see it appearing in the Accounts . |
| 23 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 24 | Your da knows you smoke , but he just does n't want to see you smoking already . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose I just do n't want to see you hurt . ’ |
| 26 | You 've been good to me , Peter , I would n't want to see you hurt by having me around . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't want to see you hurt , ’ he said softly . |
| 28 | She knew how badly one sister had treated you ; she quite obviously did n't want to see you become associated with the other … ’ |
| 29 | He added : ‘ I do n't want to see anyone sent off but you ca n't have tackles like that flying around . ’ |
| 30 | You will have read enough apparently contradictory facts about what you can and ca n't eat to drive you to drink ( or chocolates , cakes , cheese sandwiches or whatever constitutes your particular downfall ) . |