Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [to-vb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes I know he wants me to do something and usually it 's something I do n't particularly want to do . |
| 2 | ‘ He wants me to meet somebody and I 'm not sure I should . ’ |
| 3 | I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ? |
| 4 | ‘ If anybody wants them to prove anything , they do . |
| 5 | ‘ My client wants you to kill someone on Level 121 , ’ he said , low , even though the bartender and anyone else in what might possibly be earshot were making it obvious they were n't listening . |
| 6 | ‘ My client wants you to kill someone — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Mr P. wants you to do something for him , Sergeant , ’ I whispered . |
| 8 | And by your own admission you are broke — and , also by your admission , your mother wants you to marry someone sophisticated , wealthy … |
| 9 | He needs you to say something . |
| 10 | So the simple answer to our question is that God wants us to find something useful in this passage from His word so that we — people who serve God — or , in the other translations , men and women of God — may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind of good deed . |
| 11 | Including allies is a good way of expanding your collection , it also allows you to paint something different and still include it in your army . |
| 12 | Including allies is a good way of expanding your miniature collection , and it also allows you to paint something different and still include it in your army . |
| 13 | Including allies is a good way of expanding your miniature collection , and it also allows you to paint something different and still include it in your army . |
| 14 | This is an important qualification ( that doubt is normal only in our abnormal situation ) , but it allows us to appreciate something of the positive side of doubt . |
| 15 | Commentary … allows us to say something other than the text itself , but on condition that it is the text itself which is said , and in a sense completed . |
| 16 | The dependence of the world upon God is not initial but constant ; built into the structures of reality is an inherent dependence which requires us to posit something else — the designer or the first cause . |
| 17 | If you look through it , if my adding up is correct , it requires us to keep something in the order of sixteen separate files on one project . |
| 18 | I mean they 've got to understand that when the teacher tells them to do something that |
| 19 | When God comes and he asks me to give something , whether it 's my finance , whether it 's my time , whether it 's my , my abilities , whether it 's , even my life itself for him , he only asks because he has already done it . |
| 20 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 21 | And so when God comes to me and asks me to do something he 's already walked that path before me . |
| 22 | He tells you to do something and you do it , no arguing . |
| 23 | This prompts you to do something else , namely to work out the relationship between the parts of the list : why all the different sorts of tragedy are all called tragedy , what the historical sequence and links between them are , etc . |
| 24 | If he or she asks you to pick something up , assert yourself or defuse the situation but do n't bend down . |
| 25 | Now , God never asks us to do something that he does n't do himself . |
| 26 | If someone pulls you out the river when you 're half drowning , you just lie on the bank coughing and spluttering , and no one expects you to say anything . |
| 27 | As we 've already suggested this is a cost effective solution it is a software only solution and enables us to use lots of erm low cost hardware components . |
| 28 | It enables us to remove anything that gets in the way of our relationship with God . |
| 29 | Similarly , in order to construct a notion of ‘ genre ’ , it is necessary to generalise across experience and determine what it is that is common to fairy stories , chats , news broadcasts , epic poems , debates or salesmen 's routines which enables us to recognise one as being a token of the generalised type . |
| 30 | They follow two lines : either my child commands me to do something , and if I do n't , she insists , and eventually has a tantrum ; |