Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
2 | The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution . |
3 | Most UK investors will want to invest with a sterling denominated cheque , rather than convert to dollars beforehand . |
4 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
5 | Post-production editing is a boon if you are uncertain as to what you will want to include in the final version of the video . |
6 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
7 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
8 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
9 | If you got it you could go in to the higher , if you did n't want to go into the higher you leave at er thirteen , you went into the supplementary . |
10 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
11 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
12 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
13 | ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious . |
14 | Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End . |
15 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
16 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
17 | We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ? |
18 | What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ? |
19 | " Jenny , I do n't want to sound like an old auntie , but you are not being very sensible about Matthew . " |
20 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
21 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
22 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
23 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |
24 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
25 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
26 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
27 | But who 'd want to work in the small labs if the more exciting stuff went elsewhere ? " |
28 | So I 'm sorry Mr Chairman if the report is doom and gloom but that is the situation that does prevail we will endeavour to work to the best of our ability , or the lack of it but please remember the constraints that we are under and if we have got any views , to stand , and if we do want to help the people in Dundee and we do want to stop the government pilfering the British Rail pension scheme |
29 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
30 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |