Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 2 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 3 | And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’ |
| 4 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 5 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 6 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 7 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 8 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 9 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 10 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 11 | In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship . |
| 12 | Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated . |
| 13 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 14 | However , I will seek to set them in the wider context of the Government 's commitment and programme for the computerisation of general practice . |
| 15 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 16 | Do we need to put anything in the front of our , our quality manual , in the scope of registration , which 'll make it clear that the day to day of our accounts department are . |
| 17 | You go to prison for something you 've done wrong , that 's your punishment , but they do n't need to humiliate you in the way they do . |
| 18 | You 'll need to reassure her about the reliability of your products and the good service your shop offers . |
| 19 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 20 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 21 | They ca n't wait to mix it with the opposition ! |
| 22 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 23 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 24 | Erm we 'll need to isolate separately the wages on that cost Lynne because we 'll need to add it to the |
| 25 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 26 | I refer to your letter of 30 October 1992 but will need to direct you to the District Council Planning Department for much of the information that you seek . |
| 27 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 28 | All right , I 'll put a sling on that arm , and if the pain gets worse you must promise to take yourself to the hospital . ’ |
| 29 | Oh we 're not , we do n't need to take it till the next one . |
| 30 | In practice this means that we do n't need to concern ourselves with the contents of such data files ; they 're not for human consumption without previous digestion by a computer . |