Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You can use a hot air gun for this , or a chemical paint stripper , but both tend to strip off more paint than you might want .
2 We in government have a duty to ensure that local responsibility is not abused , and we intend to carry out that duty .
3 The idea is to make it a bring facility at the moment , which is why we like the station centre and the yard behind it , because people tend to drive out that way as they go to Exeter and back .
4 If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins .
5 eh , the same number on four lines , but if were want to go out four people were to phone in at the one time
6 ‘ In that case I want to go out this afternoon and do something .
7 You want your perceptions heightened … and you want to shirk off all notions of human morality .
8 I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out .
9 and they said I want to work out this angle .
10 OSF TO SPELL OUT DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT FUTURE , AS IBM TAKES THE REINS
11 How long will the country continue to lose jobs and to lose access to the great national asset of our coal , given that the Government want to sell off British Coal overnight at a cheap price , for the benefit of the Treasury ?
12 Abreu 's strategies appear to rule out such renegotiation possibilities — an agreement is made once and for all and can never be reopened .
13 Usually it is very mild , but if you are due to undergo surgery and want to rule out any risk of infection from infused blood , it is worth asking the hospital if they will allow you to donate your own .
14 The money will be available for both Training and Enterprise Councils and Local Enterprise Companies in Scotland , so they can work with employers , schools , parents , local authorities and others who want to set up out-of-school care .
15 This examination incorporates financial , language and commercial components and support those people who want to build up essential business skills .
16 ‘ I want to know what she was like , and I want to clear up some questions which have been puzzling me and which do n't appear on the record . ’
17 In our case , the excluders want to keep out both kinds of fool : people with learning difficulties themselves and their fool advocates , those people who represent the rival philosophy and advocate their inclusion .
18 The money men who keep Formula One afloat want to stave off commercial backlashes that could cost them millions of pounds and hard-earned goodwill .
19 There is also the question of the evidence put to Parliament , and I want to take up those issues in Committee .
20 And er we 're delighted to ha that you want to take on this task .
21 I want to take down some dado and picture rails .
22 If you want to act out this sickness you 've got then I suppose you must .
23 ‘ I just want to cut up this piece of meat , Tess , ’ he said .
24 ‘ That 's not quite honest — I want to follow up that investigation myself .
25 Those who want to follow up this issue should also look at the writings of Jowell ( see n. 3 ) and Davis , and a collection of papers edited by Adler and Asquith .
26 There would of course have been no story if the author had not given Ayesha enough of human frailty and caprice to bring about certain changes in the circumstances of her rule over the cannibalistic Amahaggar and her relations with Leo Vincey .
27 In the first case the haulier and the other party undertake to carry out certain obligations ( typically the haulage of goods for an agreed price ) and the contract is made by exchange of these promises .
28 The objectives and policies of the new leadership have been widely discussed in the West ; in this research the investigators hope to round out this picture by devoting particular attention to the nature , limitations of , and resistance to , change in the world 's largest communist-ruled country .
29 The countries hope to set up similar institutes on their own ground , with an exchange of technicians .
30 The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ .
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