Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they , we will , we will not allow them within this area which we intend to demolish and rebuild . |
| 2 | I hope I 'll do so , but I must confess that I tend to go and make a pot of tea whenever election coverage starts on the TV . |
| 3 | There is also the possibility that the vibrations of the flute being played tend to alert and annoy the snake . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Jay , ’ she said , ‘ I hate to go and leave you in this state . ’ |
| 5 | One aspect of colic is difficult to explain from either viewpoint — the fact that the symptoms tend to disappear or diminish at about three months of age . |
| 6 | It is true that , once established , the main elements of bargaining structures tend to persist and remain relatively stable . |
| 7 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 8 | For the rest of my life I mean to try and make amends by helping such people to live cleaner and healthier lives . ’ |
| 9 | Because they are heavily dependent upon the quality of their leadership special music groups tend to come and go . |
| 10 | To anyone not familiar with this type of treatment , the presentation will seem difficult or even unintelligible ; within the generative approach , many different theories , all with different names , tend to come and go with changes in fashion , which is very confusing . |
| 11 | I hate that programme because I like I tend to come and listen to the content of what they 're saying |
| 12 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 13 | When investigating a transformation to promote symmetry in a single batch , we first examine the midpoint summaries — the median , the midquartile , and the midextreme — to see if they tend to increase or decrease . |
| 14 | tend to try and get rid of the T V because you do n't want the distraction in the background . |
| 15 | I agree with my honourable friend er one of the er satisfactory features of the C B I er survey last week , one of the many , was that eighty four percent of firms er in the U K intend to increase or maintain their spending on training and of course she 's absolutely right , they will be the firms that will benefit most from that investment in training as we continue through recovery into growth in the longer term . |
| 16 | Not only that — we intend to increase and extend the right of access to an appellate system , which does not exist at the moment . |
| 17 | Does the right hon. Gentleman intend to compensate or confiscate ? |
| 18 | Er , equally colleagues , I intend to try and take er key national officers ' report during the course of this morning . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's why I intend to try and stick in this country . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's why I intend to try and stick in this country . |
| 21 | But , in general , traditional psychological methods tend to exclude or devalue women and the features associated with them in discourses of femininity , and concentrate on male-identified features like activity , individuality and objectivity instead . |
| 22 | Both can be seen as popular traditions in that they appeal to ‘ the people ’ , but while popular interpellations tend to absorb and neutralise potentially antagonistic elements , populism tends to develop them : |
| 23 | Well I do n't think we want to see that do we ? |
| 24 | They want to know what is going on , and what the general wants them to do , and why , and when ; they want to see and decide in their own minds what sort of person he is . |
| 25 | We always want to see and hear confident actors . |
| 26 | Does he agree that it is possible , if arts societies stage productions that the population want to see or hear , for those societies to be self-financing — as the society in Billericay is ? |
| 27 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 28 | I want to go and make daisy chains and eat rhubarb pie like we did in that magic , far-away land of childhood … |
| 29 | that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it . |
| 30 | You can do this even if you also want to go and speak , or ask someone else to speak for you . |