Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 2 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |
| 3 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 4 | You may have to commit yourself to buying a new home before you have sold your existing one , in which case you may need to take out a bridging loan to tide you over until you sell . |
| 5 | How many sixths would you need to make up a third ? |
| 6 | A lawyer might be encouraged to work for , say , professional arrangements which opened up the profession 's services to the general public ; or a chemist might seek to reduce the impact of the chemical industry on the environment ; or a doctor might act to bring about a new balance between preventive and restorative medicine , as practised by the profession . |
| 7 | We would n't wish to do that , but nor would we want to open up a free for all . |
| 8 | The Democratic Platform at a conference on March 18-19 had begun discussing whether it should prepare to set up a new political party immediately after the July congress , if its policies were not adopted . |
| 9 | Alternatively , the firm can choose to set up a local operation and simply ‘ clone ’ the domestic business in the foreign country . |
| 10 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 11 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |
| 12 | Will others choose to keep up a continuous presence in covering Yugoslavia in the way that we have over the past year ? |
| 13 | ‘ We would like to go over a few points relating to the Livesey murder , ’ Bragg said evenly . |
| 14 | What I would like to do with the financi financial commentary , is because it is , is an historic document , I would like to pull out a few plums which we can team brief . |
| 15 | Q Please could you give me some information on Red Shiners , as I would like to set up a coldwater tank in which to keep some . |
| 16 | We would like to set up a SPRED group in this area but we need helpers . |
| 17 | They can co-ordinate only within the south-east of England , but if you would like to set up a local group , Chris Milton has prepared information sheets and can put you in touch with other interested people in your area . |
| 18 | I 'd like to set up a different sort of help-line , something informal and friendly where the employees wo n't be afraid to discuss their problems . ’ |
| 19 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 20 | I shall begin to put out a few delicate hints . |
| 21 | I would like to point out a small correction for your readers . |
| 22 | Those who have read Mr Clark 's prose with mounting impatience might like to point out a few lessons to him : 1 ) mention the book early on ; 2 ) avoid the clichés ; 3 ) forswear dodgy phrases , like ‘ pied-piper 's trail of opportunity discarded ’ , which really mean very little . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like to stay down a little while — hear more about your family , too . |
| 24 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 25 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 26 | You may wish to carry out a full post-production assemble edit . |
| 27 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 28 | How long do we try to patch up a failing plan ? |
| 29 | I 'll have to sort out a suitable bottle of wine to go with it . ’ |
| 30 | the P.N.M. would have to sort out a few more issues of contention ; a Federated West Indies for instance ; constitutional reform ; should they let the U.S. retain its naval base at Chaguaramas ? and , are we a socialist movement ? |