Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [verb] you [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I shall tell you something which I wish you to remember , even if we do not meet again soon after this week . ’ |
| 2 | Er I 've got two handouts which I want you to pick up er now . |
| 3 | You 're a part of that — part of the solution to a problem I badly need to solve , and I need you , and you 're going to stay here until we 're finished , and you 're going to do what I tell you to do . |
| 4 | ‘ You will do what I TELL you to do , WHEN I tell you to do it . |
| 5 | So what I need , because what I tell you to do you see , is in case there 's somebody who fix it up and does n't know , it 's all there , but , you know , |
| 6 | Okay what I ask you to do as with being assertive , first of all be clear about what it is that you 're going to try and do , be clear about what it is and what the situation is , explain it to the partner and then try it and let's see how it doing . |
| 7 | ‘ That is what I ask you to find out , Madame , ’ she whispered . |
| 8 | ‘ Did n't you understand what I asked you to do ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That 's what I expected you to say . |
| 10 | Very clear and pretty complete account really of , of what I 've you to cover but it was quite a lot of ground erm she went over and er some of it may be less easy to understand than other bits . |
| 11 | Will they do what I told you to tell them to do ? ’ |
| 12 | The ‘ when … then ’ rule — sometimes referred to as ‘ Grandma 's rule ’ — states that ‘ First you work , then you play ’ or ‘ You do what I want you to do before you are allowed to do what you want to do ’ . |
| 13 | What I want you to do between now and the end of the lesson , ah , wait for it , in your rough books , ah I want you to start writing down ideas of the things that are important to you , but before we do that , let's just have a few starters on the board , let's have some hands up . |
| 14 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 15 | I 'd like you to put them out just bring me the bottle over now I 'll show you what I want you to do . |
| 16 | Okay what I want you to do is to get twelve of them first and put them into see how many rectangles you could make . |
| 17 | If you 'd like to make a a little note of what I want you to do . |
| 18 | Now what I want you to do No this is getting very exciting to me . |
| 19 | So what I want you to do is to follow these little chips er dimples here , they 're on this stone there 're a few on that but not on here , so that bit it goes in that direction . |
| 20 | ‘ Do what I want you to do , then you can go . |
| 21 | Now what I want you to do I want to just have a look at it now and I want you to play with it over the holiday on your own . |
| 22 | You 'll be doing it on your own so that 's what I want you to do to get so you can do it on your own . |
| 23 | Now what I want you to do , is to find F of G of X. |
| 24 | What I want you to do is look at them and assess — in your considered opinion — whether they can be made to work or not . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I want you to do . |
| 26 | What , what I want you to do is , just with you sitting just now , just lift your leg up like that , just hold it with your two hands . |
| 27 | ‘ What I want you to do is to find out some information from another solicitor . ’ |
| 28 | Here 's what I want you to do . |
| 29 | Now what I want you to do is not look at that . |
| 30 | Basically to say , er , look after me , or give me what I want , or er , do what I want you to do , or whatever it may be . |