Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day , complete with the white wedding car . |
| 2 | You do n't want to miss the surprise ! ’ |
| 3 | I do n't want to miss the start of the big picture . ’ |
| 4 | But I suppose if you do n't want to miss the start you could just go straight in . ’ |
| 5 | I had to go — I had a meeting in town and I did n't want to miss the train . |
| 6 | I was in a hurry to catch the tube — it was the rush hour — I did n't want to miss the train — Cedric … you see , Cedric was waiting — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It would be wrong to anticipate the conclusions of the inquiry but I do want to assure the public that this matter is a cause of great concern to the Prison Service and that all aspects of the escape , including the role played by prison staff , will be very carefully examined . ’ |
| 8 | Do you want to borrow the car and return it later ? ’ |
| 9 | Having said that , if you do have top-quality black and white photographs , then include one with the press releases to the national newspapers ; they may want to carry the story but have no time to find a photograph themselves . |
| 10 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 11 | We do not want to carry the image of middle age in other people 's eyes , nor do we wish to think of ourselves as getting old . |
| 12 | No point making a fuss ; plenty more women with young kinds anxious for work , as Mr Silver will explain to silence the muttering that occasionally drowns even the machines . |
| 13 | You 'll not be noticed in the crowd , and your mother will never forgive you if you do n't stay to see the visitors , and tell her about them ! ’ |
| 14 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 15 | Captain Hymers did n't stay to see the coffee served because he then went on to visit another of his garrison units , namely the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital . |
| 16 | It is not clear to what degree the kinship defenders would want to preserve the link with biological parents who are in no way the psychological parents as well — that is , how much they value the blood tie as such . |
| 17 | Alternatively , however , you may want to emphasise the point that actual readers are unlikely to respond all in the same way , especially readers differing in gender , class , age , ethnicity or some other aspect of social identity . |
| 18 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 19 | This does give Europe the possibility of a role , perhaps in bringing the war to an end , when unwise forces in Washington may want to continue the war too long , and also to play a role in clearing up the mess afterwards , although its going to be a terrifying mess . |
| 20 | ‘ So you will stay to attend the business fair at the Palazzo Parisio , which starts on the twenty-eighth . |
| 21 | Thus workers and managers will want to agree the wage rate for the coming year . |
| 22 | The smell chemicals evaporate quickly and disappear without continual reinforcement , so the trail does not persist to mislead the ants once the food is exhausted . |
| 23 | We do n't want to lose the scrum as part of our game or just to be a means of restarting play ’ , concluded Spotswood . |
| 24 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 25 | I start to speak , but I do not want to lose the smoke . |
| 26 | The rest is comprehensive ; we do n't want to lose the boats through inadequate ground tackle or warps ! |
| 27 | We do n't want to lose the men so we 've got them here . |
| 28 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 29 | I thought they 'd probably want to see the video I was splicing together from the footage we were getting on opium growing in the Bekaa Valley , but these were cops on a government-paid vacation . |
| 30 | Surprisingly it does devalue the works for collectors and museums who will want to see the back of the picture . |