Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You trust me to drive without keeping a constant watch ? ’ |
| 2 | Erm I mean nothing to do with this one . |
| 3 | What people think of the media in general and each medium in particular and the role or roles they perceive them to play in their lives and in society are important preliminary considerations which have to be studied . |
| 4 | Suffer me to go to my infamy ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You mean someone to take in the ironing ? |
| 6 | Yeah I want everyone to do like five or ten minutes next week on what they 're gon na write . |
| 7 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 8 | Let us pause for a moment over ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ . |
| 9 | So next time you see a decaying barn or cottage , stop the car , take a snap or two , and send them to SAVE with the name and address of the property . |
| 10 | David Fullerton , of the Sierra Club , an environmental lobby group , says : ‘ They want to use new technology or more water while we want them to talk about the crops they 're growing . ’ |
| 11 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 12 | No : if we want them to fall in love with us , we 'll just have to ignore them , and hope they do n't go away . |
| 13 | Remember Jesus ' Golden Rule : ‘ Do to others just what you want them to do for you . ’ |
| 14 | Erm now , so he said erm that 's what they 're aiming for this thing that they want them to do on May the eighteenth plus a sponsorship walk on the sixth of June |
| 15 | ‘ Because I 've already told Mr Priest we just do n't have room for any more , unless you want them to sleep in the cellar . |
| 16 | ‘ Team Toyota Europe want them to go to the Safari and they ca n't put off a decision much longer . |
| 17 | want them to go down School Lane . |
| 18 | ‘ We want them to grow with the company . ’ |
| 19 | The EIS supports small schools in cases where communities want them to stay in existence . |
| 20 | er they want them to stay in England |
| 21 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 22 | Yes , a useful point of clarification because actually we bid to the , we 've made a submission to the Department of Transport to install cameras on their behalf on their roads and we want them to pay for them . |
| 23 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 24 | ‘ If you mean I want them to look at my gown , you 're correct . ’ |
| 25 | Older people we know want to be offered more ways of preventing illness , so you know , they have to really be informed , er we want them to know about it so then they can make the choice as to whether they take it up with their G P . |
| 26 | But if you really want me to go into details Valerie Mitchell was sitting not far from you last week . |
| 27 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |
| 29 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 30 | ‘ They want me to go with her . |