Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ Too many people want to go to attend and we have just not got the space to accommodate them . ’ |
| 2 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |
| 3 | I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended . |
| 4 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 5 | Course , that was did n't want to come and she said oh they asked for it in so I just pretended I did n't I 'd handed mine in and did n't say anything like , you know in ca like , cos I had to go and get them yesterday . |
| 6 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 7 | I said I want to go and I meant it . |
| 8 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 9 | But if you 're in a situation where that 's not possible then you 'll do the very best you can , but you 're always going to be on the look out for the priorities as they change , cos once the person stops breathing they become unconscious , they stop breathing , their heart stops , then everything else has to wait and you have to try and get on with that , okay ? |
| 10 | At first , when the L Dopa starts to work and he signals his awakening with some familiar Dr Niro facial ticks and mannerisms you think he might be blowing it . |
| 11 | I want to know and I want to help make it happen . ’ |
| 12 | Such a policy of extensification would avoid food mountains and ensure that our land was properly looked after by farmers who want to work and who expect a reasonable return for their efforts . |
| 13 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 14 | ‘ If the shopkeeper wants to sell and I want buy , what business is it of anyone else ? ’ |
| 15 | The bubbles of foam trembled to mist and I sensed the house become dangerous , a mirage to my eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ Pears wants to play and I have to bear that in mind . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I just want to play and it looks as though I will . ’ |
| 18 | So he has control over what he wants to hear and I have my own mixer on stage . |
| 19 | You say he is clever , clever enough to know what he wants to do and what makes him satisfied . |
| 20 | I want to see er the this rubbish dump but this is n't the time to do it and as the Conservatives said , we should wait on er to see what the Council er wants to do and I take that on board . |
| 21 | Yet for all this , more co-ordinated machinery still has to emerge and I confess to experiencing a certain sour taste of insincerity when I hear educational leaders talking about promoting a relevant and dynamic curriculum for primary schools , yet notice that they are hastening most slowly in providing the assessment policy needed to enable this to happen . |
| 22 | The problem I 've got is is er I know what I want to do and you told me what are doing , so from that I have a good picture of what how I should approach it . |
| 23 | I like it when she says ‘ Surprise , Surprise ’ , it 's so funny , and I like it when they all start crying , 'cos they 're happy and they all start crying 'cos they 're thick and my mum starts to cry and you say ‘ Why are you crying , it 's meant to be happy ? ’ and she goes ‘ Weaarrh ’ . |
| 24 | Yes , we do need to fight and I did make reference that we need not just to organize and cooperate with other public sector workers , but we actually need to build a campaign with the users of the services . |
| 25 | If you have existing furniture and are merely re-doing a room , you will almost certainly know what you want to keep and what to replace — or re-upholster , re-cover , re-finish or re-paint . |
| 26 | And you pick you one you want to kiss and you have to kiss them on whatever their card is showing . |
| 27 | I presided over a the Criminal Law Revision Committee when we reviewed the law relating to rape and we discovered that there was this myth that women asked for rape . |
| 28 | I want to live and I want my children to get an education . |
| 29 | Det Chief Insp Nick Biddiss said : ‘ People may still know things they have forgotten to mention and we hope this exercise will jog their memories . ’ |
| 30 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |