Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 2 | ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to go back to the house and telephone the Incident Room . |
| 7 | ‘ I want you to deal personally with the Potrovsky widow . |
| 8 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 9 | ‘ Midge , I want you to get back into the car , close the doors and lock them from the inside . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I want you to get back to the docks and get everybody out as fast as you can . |
| 11 | Wycliffe said : ‘ I want you to come back to the Incident Room with me where you will be asked to make a full statement . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to stay here in the yard until he returns . |
| 13 | I want you to think back to the story of Mufaro |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |
| 16 | I want us to get out of the habit of losing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 20 | AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ . |
| 21 | We allow ourselves to tune in to the personal life and love of God , not to an abstract principle or an impersonal deity . |
| 22 | While you are waiting to cross , encourage the dog to sit at the kerb , and never allow it to wander out into the road on its own . |
| 23 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |
| 24 | We usually ask them to arrive ahead of the rest so that we can see them safely settled before the rush starts . ’ |
| 25 | I must write to the Michelin and ask them to look again at the Fermette Marboeuf ! |
| 26 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 27 | I I 'm , this does n't seem to me , a very intelligent way , I I , somehow or other you 've got to get the parents , win them to behave properly towards the children without the threat of a heavy fine on their head . |
| 28 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 29 | The nuptial pads on a male frog 's feet enable him to grip on to the females tightly when mating . |
| 30 | The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses . |