Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to let her go . |
| 2 | The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you would like me to send you further copies of these agreements , please do not hesitate to let me know . |
| 5 | Egyptians , wary of historical backsliding , would not like to see them reopen . |
| 6 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |
| 7 | Cocaine is the kind of drug that does not have to do you harm — unless you 're stupid with it . |
| 8 | I do not wish to see it become our future . |
| 9 | Isambard did not mean to let him go for money , and was ensuring that the crown should not intervene to take him out of his hands perforce . |
| 10 | Ceauşescu did not mean to let it come again . |
| 11 | I did not mean to make you feel unwelcome . |
| 12 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 13 | They could not afford to let it fall apart . |
| 14 | I could not bear to see him suffer and so I threw myself wholeheartedly on to Nonni 's side , arguing passionately that my aunts ' lack of interest in day-to-day matters was a boring affectation ; that Nonni was much more ‘ real ’ and ‘ closer to life ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd probably try to make him laugh — that generally helps to defuse an awkward situation . ’ |
| 16 | We are now buying ourselves white sticks that we do n't really need to help us cross the road . |
| 17 | ‘ There are many quick and inexpensive colouring ideas that can really help to make you look and feel vibrant ’ says the experts at Vidal Sassoon . |
| 18 | Half my clients do n't even want to let me know what they 're up to . |
| 19 | I did n't stay to see it happen , just went as far up the fields as I could go . |
| 20 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 21 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 22 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 23 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 24 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 25 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 26 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 27 | " You do n't want to let it worry you . |
| 28 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |
| 29 | She did n't want to see him leave . |
| 30 | 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 . |