Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife is a nymphomaniac , with an alarming resemblance to Morticia in The Addams Family , who desperately wants to sink her amorous fangs into two young likely lads about town . |
| 2 | He has to wear them all the time , but he does n't wear them all the time |
| 3 | If she wants to continue our private battle , then who am I to stop her ? |
| 4 | for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours . |
| 5 | In ‘ The disappearance ’ , Imamu has to prove that he had nothing to do with Perk 's disappearance by finding her dead body in someone else 's house having been murdered by that person and Boo has to risk his own life in order to save that of Scout 's before his most ignorant neighbours realise he 's not a squirrel eating monster . |
| 6 | It wants to kill us all ! ’ |
| 7 | she has to taste it first |
| 8 | ‘ She just wants to see me happy before … ’ |
| 9 | ( There is a man in the corridor who wants to see me dead ) |
| 10 | No , she wants to see her old friends . |
| 11 | If the Minister of State wants to see what that is like , she should go into the City tonight and look at the number of people who are sleeping in the cold because there is no accommodation for them . |
| 12 | Yeah well Robert said why have we stopped so I said I think we 're looking because it 's a typical new house and daddy wants to see what typical new houses now offer . |
| 13 | ‘ He wants to see you all . ’ |
| 14 | Meanwhile , IBM 's AIX division wants to go one better and negotiate a deal for Kingham , Oxfordshire-based Binary Star Ltd 's DeltaStar software ( UX No 409 ) , a development programming environment which can re-engineer RPG II-based code to run on any system that supports Micro Focus Plc Cobol or C — not just IBM AIX . |
| 15 | Who wants to thump them first ? ’ |
| 16 | Yes , you guessed it , DJ has to find them all in another epic arcade adventure : DJ Puff 's Volcanic Caper . |
| 17 | The parish of course has to find its 15 per cent share of this £1 million project and is busy fundraising . |
| 18 | And , because there is no standard first aid for a broken heart , every betrayed woman has to find her own cure . |
| 19 | Each of us has to find our own truth and our own self in relation to the world ; all you can do is to remain true to yourself and your chosen path . |
| 20 | To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are . |
| 21 | To have any meaningful environmental policy with objectives that allow targets to be set , an organisation needs to know its present position and identify the issues to be addressed . |
| 22 | Even if Swapo fails to get the two-thirds of the vote it needs to write its own constitution , it will have little difficulty in persuading one or another of the smaller parties to work with it . |
| 23 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 24 | Every family needs to find its own best time or times . |
| 25 | It 's early days and the market for acrylics needs to find its own level . |
| 26 | She wants to know what that is . |
| 27 | I have tried to show how such an approach is necessary if language teaching is to draw maximal benefits from developments in the informing disciplines while retaining its own identity as a domain of enquiry which has to meet its own conditions of relevance and accountability . |
| 28 | At the end of the day the whole community has to know what this is all about , but let me stress , there is no threat in this process that is being proposed , to bring about a total cessation of violence , there is no threat to any section of our community , none what so ever . |
| 29 | I acknowledge that Faber 's is a significant score for a company with a part-time editor-in-chief and a chief executive who wants to split his own job , but at Random House we work harder ( or at least differently ) and it does produce results . |
| 30 | Leeds chairman Leslie Silver Wwednesday defended the controversial decision to sell Batty and said : ‘ No manager wants to sell his best players but Howard Wilkinson is practical enough to realise that we ca n't just buy other people 's best players — it works the other way round sometimes . |