Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |
| 2 | But I 'm not really planning to be a hermit ; my brother 's coming over soon , and I know he 'll want to go to the islands , so we 'll be in touch . |
| 3 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 4 | He does n't want to go to the police . |
| 5 | That 's why you do n't want to go to the police . |
| 6 | If you do not want to go to the police , ring Sunday Life on Belfast 331133 ext 4316 and your message will be passed on to the McDermotts . |
| 7 | We we wanted somewhere round the area , or Valley , but we did n't want to come to the flats , no way . |
| 8 | ‘ We do need to talk to the tutors and point out that the patterns of study that they are providing are not meeting the demands of the market , ’ Mr Armitage stresses . |
| 9 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 10 | The detailed design of individual modules will need careful thought and will need to respond to the problems which teachers themselves recognize as important . |
| 11 | The seventeen year old does not always want to listen to the views of his father and mother , particularly if he has his heart set upon a motorbike ! |
| 12 | I do n't want to talk to the bozos . |
| 13 | The message for Mr Major : unless he wants to be prisoner to such as these , he should plan to go to the polls by April 1996 at the latest . |
| 14 | I 'd like to go to the missions abroad , Thérèse mused : that would be the most exciting . |
| 15 | I 'd like to go to the logs . |
| 16 | When , diffidently , he asked her if she would like to go to the pictures with him one evening , her immediate acceptance seemed to surprise them both . |
| 17 | Per Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. ( i ) In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or to cause irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance ( post , pp. 798G — 799A , H ) . |
| 18 | In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or threatens irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance . |
| 19 | WE , the 15 loyal supporters of Cliftonville FC from north and west Belfast , would like to apologise to the directors , staff and players over our recent remarks about the ‘ Joe Kerr incident . ’ |
| 20 | Does your dog like to sing to the soaps ? |
| 21 | Anyone who has a German shepherd they would like to offer to the police is asked to telephone Sandon dog section on ( 0245 ) 223616 . |
| 22 | We 'd like to speak to the kids , madam . " |
| 23 | A male plumber would have to see to the pipes . |
| 24 | I wish he 'd get his teeth seen to ; do they have special police dentists or do they have to go to the ones everybody else goes to and hope the dentist does n't have some … have some grudge … some grudge against … ? |
| 25 | If you want a pint of Mayhem 's Sundowner Heavy or Oddas Light you 'll have to go to the Farmers Arms at Apperley near Tewkesbury . |
| 26 | Mrs ze Schluderpacheru was doing the accounts on her musical wrist-calculator , working how out much of her take would have to go to the yaks this quarter . |
| 27 | This means you wo n't have to go to the police after all . ’ |
| 28 | The aims of the new mental health task force , set up in January to monitor the mental health service modernisation programme ( p 000 ) , seem sensible , but if central data on the programme had been collected all along the team would not now have to go to the districts for information . |
| 29 | ‘ Excuse me , everyone , ’ said Zimmerman , rising , for being short of staff he would have to attend to the visitors himself . |
| 30 | ‘ I wo n't have to talk to the players to motivate them . |