Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile we , and God too , must wait to see if he passes the test or not . |
| 2 | Similarly , all engineers should seek to ensure that they receive the education and training they need , and that those working for them are also suitably developed . |
| 3 | Yet it is equally true that the Treasury just as consistently suggest economies that they do not expect to achieve but which concentrate the minister 's mind and preferably chill his blood . |
| 4 | ‘ The callers do n't want to hear that they have the wrong number , ’ says Howard Eckstein , Opto Plus 's owner . |
| 5 | At the end of each of the following four weeks there is a recipe section which you might like to try if you have the time and the inclination . |
| 6 | If so , I 'd like to suggest that you consider the main purpose of small talk . |
| 7 | Here is a list of leisure activities : tick the items you enjoy or would like to do if you had the time or the opportunity . |
| 8 | There 's lots of things I would n't like to do if I ruled the world how about you ? |
| 9 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 10 | He did not pause to rest when he reached the next hedge , but continued on , driving his exhausted body ruthlessly onwards . |
| 11 | The applicant did not wish to retire when she reached the age of 60 and that requirement was waived by the authority until shortly after her sixty-second birthday , when she was dismissed . |
| 12 | But he was clearly in a hurry , so it would have to wait until they reached the palazzo . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we 'll have to wait until they notify the next of kin before they release that information . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You will have to wait till I get the consent of the solicitor , at least . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Cook pledged Labour would try to help if it wins the election . |
| 17 | So we 'll , we 'll come back to that issue later , because we 'll have to approve whether we rent the land i in future years anyway , it does come up . |
| 18 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 19 | The thought of him being ten years old made the children want to giggle but they bit the giggles back . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't forget to phone when you have the chance , ’ Myra said , shrugging her shoulders helplessly as Roman opened the door . |
| 21 | Robin-Anne nodded , but was too busy eating to take much notice of her brother , though she did manage to mumble that she thought the diet soda was really kind of good . |
| 22 | But what would Gemma want to eat if she had the choice ? |
| 23 | For example , it could appear that She washed , and dressed the baby means that she washed ( herself ) and then she dressed the baby , while She washed and dressed the baby would seem to suggest that she washed the baby and also dressed it . |
| 24 | Knowing Candy would only continue to probe till she got the truth , Rory gave in gracefully . |
| 25 | The layer containing the fingers does not continue to thicken until it fills the fluid region . |