Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 2 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 4 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 6 | Say you 've got a report about a small red car , and you want to compare it with all the other small red cars that have been reported in the area . |
| 7 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 8 | You want to know anything about that boat , you ask Nick , not me . ’ |
| 9 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 10 | So you want to avoid it at all costs in release three of four . |
| 11 | Then I would tell myself such ideas were unreasonable : why would an American half-poet want to betray me to any government agency ? |
| 12 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 13 | ‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’ |
| 14 | No , well you want to put it in that front lawn . |
| 15 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will ask his constituents to remember that if they want to do something about that matter there is one answer — to buy the best food that there is , and that is British produced . |
| 16 | Er if but if you want to do something like that , to organise something , because if it goes on A five |
| 17 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 18 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |
| 19 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 20 | If you want to settle them at this meeting . |
| 21 | They always photograph me with Kylie because she 's my wife on screen , but they never bother to photograph me with any other girls . |
| 22 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 23 | Now this time we 're here for four weeks so it would probably be that they want to get everybody through this time without anybody escaping the net . |
| 24 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 25 | People who think like me are simply protesting against the Government 's action in a perfectly legitimate way — we think they 're wrong to attack Egypt and we want to stop them before any further damage is done . |
| 26 | You want to say something about this one as well ? |
| 27 | If you want to say anything about that ? |
| 28 | You want to say anything about that ? |
| 29 | ‘ They want to charge you with all the murders and assaults and take you to court , day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 30 | You want to ask her about that . |