Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When people employ a builder to repair their house , they will probably want to agree a price beforehand . |
| 2 | Sure you do n't want to see a dentist just to make sure it 's all right ? |
| 3 | Or if someone says What are you doing ? we can just answer Eating a mango instead of I am eating a mango because we know that I am is understood and does not have to be said . |
| 4 | Would she want to wear a sweater as wide as it 's long ? |
| 5 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 6 | No one will want to know a Glory again . |
| 7 | Secondly , embarrassment may be a reason for not reporting a crime ; victims may want to hide an offence rather than report it . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the investor may seek to include a provision whereby if the investor wishes to sell a specified percentage of the equity , then the other shareholders must follow suit and sell at the same price per share . |
| 9 | We do not guarantee to resell a ticket so deposited . |
| 10 | One difficulty remains in that a mining venture would still need to find a way through to the deposit in a place where the sedimentary layer is not too thick . |
| 11 | He added , however , that a handful of men did commence training a year ago for the new station and have moved home . |
| 12 | If in doubt you will need to consult a builder later with your photographs or , in the case of rot or infestation , to ask for a wood treatment survey . |
| 13 | They will consider paying a bit more for a premium service . |
| 14 | But only a local would know to put a body there . |
| 15 | You would be at the mercy of the hall 's acoustics and ideally you would need to practise a bit beforehand . |
| 16 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 17 | No we do n't need to hoover a pencil up . |
| 18 | She would need to call an ambulance straight away . |
| 19 | The first task then is to define the skills which children will need to complete a project effectively . |
| 20 | However , I did need to have a piss even more desparately than before . |
| 21 | If you are disabled you will need to take a specialist along with you to view a property to consider any problems in structural adaptation . |
| 22 | You 'll need to take a bath tonight , wo n't you , my dear , so as to be clean as a new pin for tomorrow . ’ |
| 23 | Explain to the client that they will need to sign an authority so that the defendant 's doctor can find out their entire medical history and that refusal will result in a stay of proceedings . |
| 24 | Adalbert of Bremen claims to be spiritual overlord of the Orkneys and Norway : do you want to set a precedent there ? ’ |
| 25 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 26 | Do you want to choose a book today ? |
| 27 | Given that on average each Spaniard eats 66 pounds of fish and seafood a year , and much of it comes from Galicia , you 'd expect to see a lot there . |
| 28 | Khrushchev 's dry comment on the Soviet lack of ‘ overkill ’ was : ‘ What good does it do to annihilate a country twice ? |
| 29 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 30 | The creation of different interests in the matrimonial home ( eg the right of the wife to have occupation thereof until the youngest child attains 18 years or until her death ) would appear to create a settlement both for capital gains tax and inheritance tax purposes ( Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) . |