Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want them to emerge solely as a result of cumulative selection of random mutations . |
| 2 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 3 | ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 5 | ‘ I really want someone to come along with an order so I can get on and make half a dozen . ’ |
| 6 | Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 . |
| 7 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 8 | ‘ I want you to go back to the house and telephone the Incident Room . |
| 9 | ‘ I want you to deal personally with the Potrovsky widow . |
| 10 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 11 | ‘ Midge , I want you to get back into the car , close the doors and lock them from the inside . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to get back to the docks and get everybody out as fast as you can . |
| 13 | Wycliffe said : ‘ I want you to come back to the Incident Room with me where you will be asked to make a full statement . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I want you to stay here in the yard until he returns . |
| 15 | I want you to think back to the story of Mufaro |
| 16 | ITN reporter Nicholson said : ‘ We want her to settle in like a normal British schoolgirl . ’ |
| 17 | If you want her to work closely in a team , you may wish to give some thought to the matters I have mentioned . |
| 18 | But we want her to grow up with a positive attitude . |
| 19 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 20 | Well they expect everybody to go out on a Saturday night you see . |
| 21 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |
| 22 | I want us to get out of the habit of losing . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 24 | Tell everyone to watch out for a foreign body ? |
| 25 | I said if you had n't I 'd get you to go back for a chat with him . ’ |
| 26 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 27 | It might be a potential signing for the groundsman — if he can spit half as well as his dad then we just get him to run around on the pitch for 20 mins … no need for sprinklers etc . |
| 28 | office place and give him a bag of plaster and tell him to plaster there for a day either that or send him up |
| 29 | When the baby cries a lot , and Lesley gets angry with her , I tell her to go off for an hour and I 'll look after her . |
| 30 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |