Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm when do you want , where do you want me to put this list then ? |
| 2 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 3 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 4 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 5 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 6 | Does the Oxford Forestry Institute have a programme of education for the ordinary members of the public to enable them to have this vision of their assets . |
| 7 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 8 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 9 | Thank you Betty for helping me to win this award . |
| 10 | I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority . |
| 11 | ‘ You want me to see this guy , sir ? ’ |
| 12 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 13 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 14 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 15 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 16 | I urge you to support this motion . |
| 17 | I urge you to support this motion for temporary workers , and let's have equal rights for all . |
| 18 | I urge you to support this motion . |
| 19 | Congress , I urge you to support this motion . |
| 20 | I urge you to support this motion and to put the great back into Britain . |
| 21 | ‘ I want you to examine this act in which you propose we should conspire with the enemy against our emperor . |
| 22 | I want you to take this neck and make it a neck-through-body Strat-style guitar . ’ |
| 23 | Say I was involved with a gallery and they called me up tomorrow , and said , ‘ Alison I want you to do this painting ’ , I could just comply . |
| 24 | If I say to you , I want you to do this sort of ten take away three add four in brackets , so you 'd add the three and four , get seven , ten take away seven , three . |
| 25 | I want you to estimate this figure for each individual junction . |
| 26 | ‘ They said ‘ we want you to read this statement into that TV camera ’ and that was when I found out I was going to be hanged . ’ |
| 27 | Just look at my ear June , I want you to check this lump . |
| 28 | I did n't want anyone to go to that sort of trouble , but … well , I know Steve 's worried , and I want him to enjoy this trip . ’ |
| 29 | Even the enthusiasm of a Maury Temerlin ( 1976 ) does not tempt him to attribute this level of sophistication to Ameslan Lucy ; in part , for the obvious reason , that she would then be at risk to what is on the other side of this coin — moral guilt . |
| 30 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |