Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yeah , do you want to go in the water ? |
| 6 | I do n't want to go in the road . |
| 7 | Over the back of the 18th hole is out-of-bounds ; you do n't want to go in the bunker on the right short of the green where Graham finished up , so Sandy played it left-to-right . |
| 8 | how could anybody want to go in the army in nineteen ninety two |
| 9 | Well do you want to walk or do you want to go in the car ? |
| 10 | Well , do you want to walk or do you want to go in the car ? |
| 11 | Do you want to go in the garden ? |
| 12 | This is n't the kind of thing we 'd want to see in the minutes , is it ? ’ |
| 13 | There was a minor scuffle between Hegarty and a Unionist councillor and before desisting , Hegarty shouted to the gallery : ‘ Whom do you want to see in the chair ? ’ |
| 14 | I would prefer to go in the kop , but failing that I 'd like to try the new East stand . |
| 15 | But he did n't want to sit in a pub , listening to the jollity and in-jokes of office workers . |
| 16 | In my pocket I have the key he lent me , but if Jamie is not there I do n't want to sit in the wreckage of his flat till he finally decides to show up from the pub . |
| 17 | they do n't want to sit in the restaurant they very rarely do get them sitting in the restaurant I suppose to a certain extent other than the Sundays it 's just waste of space . |
| 18 | Prove you can safely right a capsized dinghy and anchor off a rocky beach , and we 'll let you loose to cruise in the areas covered by our safety arrangements for each day . |
| 19 | Prove you can safely right a capsized dinghy and anchor off a rocky beach , and we 'll let you loose to cruise in the areas covered by our safety arrangements for each day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory . |
| 23 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 24 | He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west . |
| 25 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future . |
| 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 | In his letter he stated : ’ Such a development will cause me no little difficulty — especially from the SNP ! if you and Douglas Hurd judge that the UK 's overall interests will be best served then I would not want to stand in the way of UKAEA 's involvement . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't want to stand in the doorway and shake hands but it 's a great feeling to go into one of the restaurants and realise they do n't belong to the GrandMet or Imperial , but they are mine ! ’ |
| 30 | One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads . |