Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other passage that makes a most extraordinary effect emotionally is Ellen 's exit after she agrees tO go and collect the new apprentice for Grimes . |
| 2 | GEORGE MICHAEL has launched a legal battle against Sony Records to try and escape from his contract . |
| 3 | For those with other means of transport , a possible procedure is to follow the line as closely as possible by public roads , stopping where the line crosses to observe and explore . |
| 4 | Defects can quite often appear after the lease has been granted and the tenant will not expect to have to repair defects as part of its own obligations under a full repairing lease or even through the service charge provisions of the lease where the landlord covenants to repair and charge back . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you see , ’ the stranger said , ‘ she does n't want to wheedle your Uncle Albert into winding up the gramophone , she wants to sit and talk to me like a civilized person . |
| 6 | Daddy wants to , daddy wants to sit and watch your video with you . |
| 7 | The tribunal or court could well take the view that the business needs to reorganize or terminate practices or indeed to cut costs . |
| 8 | He always has to go and lower the tone of a conversation . |
| 9 | If she succeeds , the person has to go and sit down . |
| 10 | I am a very busy man who has to go and earn a lot of money in the private hospital next door . ’ |
| 11 | Some other employee has to go and fetch him in the morning |
| 12 | And it 's no good moaning , so has to go and do something about it , |
| 13 | She 's always nervously brushing the hair out of her eyes and saying that she ca n't come out with Howard because she has to go and see a client . |
| 14 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 15 | Lilian Hatton 's got more coats than a perishing film star but she has to go and spend thirty quid on a new outfit for Pertwee 's wedding . |
| 16 | Sparc International , which is currently at version 8 of the Sparc interface definition , said the 64-bit stuff in version 9 will be just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ and that it would be putting out the new specifications ‘ relatively soon : ’ it still has to go and dig up the stuff from down at Sun Labs . |
| 17 | Your dad has to sit and polish his shoes anyhow . |
| 18 | I 'd hate to be the person who has to sit and sit through all of that . |
| 19 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 20 | Anyone who has worthwhile pure-breeds needs to promote and sell stock ( those iniquitous Salmonella regulations notwithstanding ) , so that these birds can be distributed around the country to save them in case of some devastating disease appearing ( my free-range flock was nearly destroyed by Gumboro two years ago ) . |
| 21 | For complex processes the procedures can include stages of diagnosis ( see below ) because the operator has to monitor and interpret what is happening in the plant . |
| 22 | But when the parent is teaching the child to do what is asked , the parent needs to wait and check . |
| 23 | The culmination of its activity is at the kill , whereas a retriever needs to wait and relate closely to its owner , if it is to be successful at its task . |
| 24 | Now , on admission to hospital , the AL of communicating has to continue while assuming the sick role or patient role discussed on page 46 . |
| 25 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 26 | Now he has to wait and see how much John Major 's attitude to Europe has been affected by the gift of five more years in power . |
| 27 | The immediacy of this world of conflict demands that regardless of his proximity to the metaphorical dirt he is controlling , he needs to erect and maintain social and psychological barriers and separate himself conceptually from the ‘ prig ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody wants to see that happen again . ’ |
| 29 | Oh right , I 'll and then she 's moaning at him cos she wants to go and post it and you were mucking about with your C D thing or something and you were saying wait for me I 'll do this then I 'll miss the post . |
| 30 | Would you like — d' you think your little girl wants to go and play with — ’ |