Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 2 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go for a ride ! |
| 4 | ‘ But I do n't want to go for a sail ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 6 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 7 | I do n't really want to go on a Saturday . |
| 8 | Neither would Souness want to go as a failure . |
| 9 | Mrs Aggie , I do n't want to go to a school where I wo n't be able to get out and come home . |
| 10 | I wanted a drink , but I did n't want to go to a pub at that time of the evening , when the rush would be on , and the serious drinkers getting down to it . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ Do you want to go to a party ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want to go to a party tomorrow night ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | Why do you want to go to a party today ? |
| 14 | ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’ |
| 15 | She did n't want to go to a dentist ; even her own dentist scared her , and it could n't be much — her teeth were perfect . |
| 16 | An Enfield clerical family took in a great-grandmother in her nineties for her last two years : ‘ she did n't want to go in a home and she wrote to my mother and asked if she could possibly look after her . |
| 17 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 18 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | He was n't given too long a sentence providing he agreed to go into a clinic — you know — to be dried out and cured . |
| 20 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 21 | I do n't want to sound like a computer . |
| 22 | Alright er Stephen do you want to sit on a stool son T V ? |
| 23 | But he did n't want to sit in a pub , listening to the jollity and in-jokes of office workers . |
| 24 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 25 | Tobie made to sit in a chair and then desisted , because it was inlaid and foreign and breakable . |
| 26 | ( The user presses Y or N ) If N Do you want to search for a book title ? |
| 27 | Do you want to search for a pupil ? |
| 28 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 29 | They failed to agree on a design , but the ‘ modern ’ image of electric cooking , particularly among young housewives , led to a gradual expansion of cooker sales . |
| 30 | But too often the pack failed to ruck as a unit . |