Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 2 | In fact , she did n't want to go anywhere unless he came with her . |
| 3 | Mr Knight , who was a county councillor for Harwich for 12 years , said he was very upset at the latest snub but did not want to comment further until he had considered his next move . |
| 4 | They want to feel righteous , but they do n't want to define exactly where they stand . |
| 5 | You are not obliged to tell anyone at school of your child 's HIV status , but you may choose to do so if you feel it is best for your child to have a trusted adult who knows the situation . |
| 6 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 7 | But if you were to say ‘ I believe so ’ or ‘ I doubt it ’ , we might not prepare the meal but we could hardly plan to go elsewhere until we had heard from you more definitely . |
| 8 | Consequently , she decided to walk northwards along the edge of the moor , safe in the knowledge that if the snow should begin to fall again before she found George , she only needed to make her way downwards and she would come across Hodge Beck , which she could follow southwards to safety . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd like to know just where you got that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would like to win here but I think I will need to shoot 65 or 66 to do that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ First , if we leave now I wo n't find out what 's going on , and as you know I do n't like to leave anywhere until I know what 's going on . |
| 12 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 13 | He confirms : ‘ I 'd like to stay here till I retire . ’ |
| 14 | So you see you need not make your own designs although I think that you will certainly want to do so when you get going . |
| 15 | There are photos in here of the kind that win awards , articles that you would want to read even if you did n't have to take your mind off the fact that you might , you know , at any moment … |
| 16 | Investors may have to wait longer than they anticipate before enjoying maximum premiums . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll have to wait now until she 's gone , ’ Lily said . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's so 's you do n't have to go outside if you wants to go to the toilet , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | partners should have to confirm formally that they have complied with the rules ; |
| 20 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 21 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 22 | What , do you have to stand there when you walk down the street , and when you go |
| 23 | Rosalind would have to know now that she had n't posted the letter ! |
| 24 | that means we 'll have to walk there if we go |
| 25 | But those who find these positions unattractive will have to look further if they want to say that there are such things as knowledge or justified belief . |
| 26 | Is er , are there any comments or questions that any member of the Council would wish to put forward before we vote on this resolution ? |
| 27 | ‘ I can well imagine that you do not wish to leave here until you have proof . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ Fred and I will have to leave now as we have to catch the early train in the morning , Mary . |
| 29 | And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process . |
| 30 | well you do n't have to have any but I do n't see why I should do without because you do n't want any |