Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She did n't want to swim this afternoon , but only said it was slight indigestion . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You do n't want to go this afternoon do you ? |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | Do you want to go this way and have a look ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ What made you want to go this time , then ? ’ |
| 9 | She did n't want to see this man again . |
| 10 | No , I 'll er prefer to go this way . |
| 11 | No sane person would want to kill this baby when there is every chance that it will survive and be part of a loving family . |
| 12 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 13 | Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated . |
| 14 | ‘ Do we want to find this menace or not ? ’ he shouted . |
| 15 | As she walked uphill she heard footsteps behind her , and , turning , saw that it was the one person in the whole world she did not want to meet this side of the grave . |
| 16 | We did not want to impose this restriction here but wanted to let the data reveal individual preferences . |
| 17 | The purchaser will , therefore , need to acquire this strip before the site can be developed , or find an alternative access . |
| 18 | I said I said oh I said I ca n't wait to lose this guts and those two were sitting there while I dressed and I said oh my guts and oh how I hate them , I said but if I lost them I mean |
| 19 | So you can go , go to sleep if you want for the next minute to erm but because you will need to know this quoick transformation for your Q M project , you do want , may just want to note it down . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't wait to meet this Alice you both speak of so often , ’ Cora-Beth said thoughtfully . |
| 21 | In effect , it makes the Government the biggest non-payer of poll tax of all and they must act to remedy this situation . ’ |
| 22 | 1 The half-tester kit from Swish contains everything you 'll need to create this look yourself . |
| 23 | ‘ You wo n't need to help this time , ’ he said , lamely . |
| 24 | You will also need to put this assignment in your LIFESPAN_STARTUP command file , before you start the LIFESPAN Process . |
| 25 | You do need to put this matter right as a horse with a dipping foreleg will generally be more prone to ‘ pecking ’ i.e. tripping on landing after a jump . |
| 26 | A memory upgrade from the 1MB supplied is likely to be advisable should you need to use this feature — the printer will accept up to 6MB onboard . |
| 27 | We ca n't wait to leave this theatre , this atmosphere , this trap . |
| 28 | And now he was already moving off , as if he could n't wait to leave this place . |
| 29 | Now with regard to auditors in particular , er he will know because he 's had some correspondence with me er on this particular subject , it is the view of the government that the er recognised professional body , the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales , is best placed as a professional body , to supervise er this sector er an argument can be mounted and no doubt he may seek to use this debate to do just that , to say that er this should be the subject of some direct er rule from Whitehall . |
| 30 | You 'd really need to re-fret this guitar before you used it in anger . |