Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you want me to sit here then ? |
| 2 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 3 | One day my mum rang up and said she did n't want me to come home again and that I should go to Social Services because she was sick and tired of all the bother and everything . |
| 4 | And children facing troubles have a right not to be subjected to the ‘ system abuse ’ that may arise because of clumsy or inadequate professional intervention which — however well intentioned — can make them feel even more vulnerable , manipulated or ‘ kept in the dark ’ . |
| 5 | Worrying about , concentrating on and listening to the head noises will make them seem even more prominent and dominating . |
| 6 | Wings can be firmly stitched down or left raised , this will make them look even more realistic . |
| 7 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 8 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't make me wait too long , that 's all . ’ |
| 10 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
| 11 | ‘ We do n't want them coming home later , to tell what happened . |
| 12 | I thought you 'd want them to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't think I 'd ever really looked at him , to be honest . |
| 14 | I do n't think I 've ever really looked at it properly ‘ til now . ’ |
| 15 | And , scornfully , ‘ You do n't think I live here permanently , do you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think I care very much for having a foreigner telling the White House , the Pentagon and the FBI how to run their business . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't think I dreamt that far . ’ |
| 18 | Do you need me to come right now ? ’ |
| 19 | Did n't know who lived here before . |
| 20 | Caroline did n't trust herself to argue any longer . |
| 21 | I do n't doubt they know very well I 've come to you , and will be on their best behaviour if you call . |
| 22 | Why did you know what to do there then ? |
| 23 | But you ca n't expect me to stand here meekly … ’ |
| 24 | I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’ |
| 25 | I can only assume she tried once too often to enter the nest , as the female died during the night . |
| 26 | I did n't expect you to come so soon . ’ |
| 27 | She was n't booked with us , she was a few weeks early , and that 's why I could n't bring her to mind straight away . ’ |
| 28 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 29 | Martin , tall with a roll-necked sweater under a grey suit , played war games ; John , slightly paunchy with a beard , was into steam trains — he took photos of them ; Julian , fair , well-dressed , with crooked teeth , divorced , spent Saturdays with his children and would expect her to do so too if they suited each other ; Lewis , in three-piece suit and striped shirt , supported the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools ; Gerald , a mild , bushy-haired man , described with passionate precision the arrangement of the plants in his garden . |
| 30 | I did n't expect her to stay so long , but I made the offer and I have to stick with it . |