Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] to do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid I 've hurt you , so perhaps wanting you to do this will somehow make amends . |
| 2 | As it is , Elizabeth could perhaps encourage him to do some voluntary work or find part-time employment to redefine his identity and meet new people . |
| 3 | It 's a view , I 'm not necessarily asking you to do any further statistical work but I would like a view on it , whether it 's tenable or not . |
| 4 | He did not want her to do that , to draw the attention of his colleagues . |
| 5 | You 're not expecting him to do that . |
| 6 | What had finally driven him to do this dreadful thing ? |
| 7 | I 'm not asking you to do these now , but they 're useful for your erm , this was a handout given to people last year that I was got given . |
| 8 | They 've just asked her to do more hours , she 's to stay till five at night . |
| 9 | Linton wrote a long letter back , explaining that his father would not allow him to do that . |
| 10 | Of course , the short leash would not allow her to do this . |
| 11 | ‘ I can not allow you to do this , Fakrid ! ’ |
| 12 | You are aware of the dangers and you are aware that I can not order you to do this . |
| 13 | could quite easily ask you to do all the erm |
| 14 | erm I 'd still like you to do more work on differentiation . |
| 15 | On page eight , item one three two , can I draw committee 's attention to , says she , feverishly flicking through the pieces of paper , to a letter that John Patten has written to us , you 'll see what we asked Amanda to do on our behalf , Amanda Root , Women 's Sub also asked her to do that , and John Patten , surprisingly enough has written back , his private secretary has written back , she continues to say , ‘ Mr Patten is used to getting communications from Chief Officers conveying the views of committees , he has never had any correspondence from Sub-Committees through other officers ’ . |
| 16 | Can I really expect her to do that for the rest of my life ? ’ |
| 17 | But university life , not least his ability to rent a flat with Morton Rosengarten in Lower Stanley Street ( for some time unbeknown to his mother ) , now allowed him to do this actually . |
| 18 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 19 | I would n't want you to do that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't want you to do that , not because of anything I 'd done . ’ |
| 21 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 22 | I do n't want you to do that so it 's I 've just association wi . |
| 23 | Right , so I I actually do n't want it , do n't want you to do that again , we 've looked at each story to see what it 's about , so it 's actually better to take the idea and erm , get get the stories and to write the idea . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't need me to do that ! ’ |
| 25 | As the Queen they would n't expect me to do much . |
| 26 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 27 | The shop was closed as the season was virtually over by now , and , although she did n't know what plan he had up his sleeve , she did n't expect him to do more than breeze in and out . |
| 28 | Do n't expect it to do all the fancy layout stuff that PageMaker can handle but look at it as a tool for creating automatic invoices , business forms , price lists and so on . |
| 29 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't allow you to do this . |