Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to wait while the Substitute put on his new galoshes , murmuring with a cigar between his teeth : ‘ Do n't want to miss anything this time … ’ |
| 2 | Jock then tried to hit Denis , who was still swinging at Michael , who did n't want to hit his big brother , and stumbled back into Sean , who jumped to one side and collided with Pat Kelly , knocking his next drink out of his hand ! |
| 3 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 4 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 5 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 6 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 7 | It can be made more complicated by trying to value the choices that managers could make to affect their future cash flows , such as closing a factory , and the choices that are contingent on other choices . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course schools will want to continue their good practice of regular reports to parents and responding to any concerns parents might have . |
| 9 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 10 | ‘ And when he asked you to marry him , you accepted , because you did not want to lose your new-found security . ’ |
| 11 | He did n't want to see her hurt , longing eyes . |
| 12 | So you 'll want to see me first . |
| 13 | ‘ You probably do n't want to see me this morning , but I 've a good reason for being here . |
| 14 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 15 | But she smiled again and said , " I 'd understand if you did n't want to see me any more , " and looked down , away from him , at her feet . |
| 16 | ‘ But I do n't want to see my hard work wasted . |
| 17 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 18 | erm as many people here know and like them I have worked in a voluntary capacity and one way or another in this theatre for many years and we ca n't do without it we do n't want to see it close or any of those drastic things . |
| 19 | He had seen fear , and bravery , too , and savagery and oppression , homes burned down , wheels smashed off carts and farm implements so that the land could not be cultivated , crops ruined — he had seen it spread everywhere and he did n't want to see it any more . |
| 20 | Your old friends — your real friends — do n't want to see you any more . |
| 21 | As you get used to the F-Plan method you will probably want to plan your own high-fibre meals and can do so easily with the caloric and fibre charts in the middle of the book . |
| 22 | Oh you should 've heard him other day , all Parker pens that are in this house are his he says |
| 23 | Was that because Theo did n't want to risk his precious name in the Paris art world ? |
| 24 | ‘ Tell me something … did you think praising my Caribbean designs would win you an ally in all these underhand schemes of yours ? |
| 25 | If they were Doreen 's jodhpurs she had no wish to wear them , so she said , ‘ I 'd prefer to wear my own trousers . ’ |
| 26 | YWAM do not want to discontinue their current policy of encouraging in every way current initiatives for church planting and feeding people in to help such work . |
| 27 | ‘ And of course , with a new haircut , ’ Faye was saying now , ‘ you 'll want to wear something special . |
| 28 | She did so want to wear her new shoes . |
| 29 | We did n't want to kill them full , you see , they 're , that was a waste of food and it was n't so good for them . |
| 30 | He said that if I found out , I would want to kill them both . |