Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 2 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go for a ride ! |
| 4 | ‘ But I do n't want to go for a sail ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 6 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 7 | Neither would Souness want to go as a failure . |
| 8 | Mrs Aggie , I do n't want to go to a school where I wo n't be able to get out and come home . |
| 9 | I wanted a drink , but I did n't want to go to a pub at that time of the evening , when the rush would be on , and the serious drinkers getting down to it . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ Do you want to go to a party ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do you want to go to a party tomorrow night ? ’ he asked . |
| 12 | Why do you want to go to a party today ? |
| 13 | ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’ |
| 14 | She did n't want to go to a dentist ; even her own dentist scared her , and it could n't be much — her teeth were perfect . |
| 15 | An Enfield clerical family took in a great-grandmother in her nineties for her last two years : ‘ she did n't want to go in a home and she wrote to my mother and asked if she could possibly look after her . |
| 16 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 17 | I do n't want to sound like a computer . |
| 18 | Alright er Stephen do you want to sit on a stool son T V ? |
| 19 | But he did n't want to sit in a pub , listening to the jollity and in-jokes of office workers . |
| 20 | ( The user presses Y or N ) If N Do you want to search for a book title ? |
| 21 | Do you want to search for a pupil ? |
| 22 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 24 | Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory . |
| 25 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 26 | I do n't know , I did n't really want to work in an office . |
| 27 | I 'd prefer to work in a factory . |
| 28 | But there are basic things that the journalist will want to know about a story that you can work out in advance . |
| 29 | They will want to know about a childminder who fails to provide a safe environment or where children appear to be neglected or ill cared for . |
| 30 | ‘ Because there 's nothing else anyone could possibly want to know about a man three days dead . |