Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I want to go and I meant it . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I want to know and I want to help make it happen . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to play and it looks as though I will . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And you pick you one you want to kiss and you have to kiss them on whatever their card is showing . |
| 9 | I want to live and I want my children to get an education . |
| 10 | Even before the foods which are rich in dietary fibre start to pass down your throat , they perform a multiplicity of functions which help to reduce the quantity of food you want to eat and they start to send helpful satiety signals to the brain . |
| 11 | In future you decide exactly what you want to eat and you tell me what you want in it . |
| 12 | In future you decide exactly what you want to eat and you tell me what you want in it . |
| 13 | We want to stay and we think the school would be an asset to the village . |
| 14 | So poems are elusive because you get the idea that actually working out your idea so it comes down on paper and it looks like a good poem and it says what you want to say and it does n't spoil the effect etcetera so you 've really captured your poem . |
| 15 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 16 | He can already foresee the day when sales begin to fall and he wants the group to readjust their stringent stance , mainly for their own survival . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , thank you very much for your expert opinion , but that ‘ death trap ’ , as you call it , is the only vehicle I happen to possess and I need it mended pretty quickly . |
| 18 | The queen 's ovaries now begin to develop and she swells greatly . |
| 19 | Thus the storyteller and the compiler create in us , step by fearful step , a sense of foreboding , and when we learn at the start of chapter 4 that the Israelites are going into battle with the mighty Philistines , then our knees begin to tremble and we dread what the outcome might be . |
| 20 | That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out . |
| 21 | Erm , they have n't had them in Suffolk , we 've had one or two try to join and one did reasonably well , but right at the end of , of the , of one of the tests , the strength tests , she failed , she could n't quite manage it erm |
| 22 | I love to knit and I like to sew |
| 23 | You start to move and he comes he gives you a horn warning swerves around and carries on up the road . |
| 24 | You 've to work and you 've to work overtime and you be round the clock . |
| 25 | I must tell the House and the Minister that there are only 15 minutes left for this debate ; other hon. Members wish to participate and I hope that they will get the chance to do so . |
| 26 | But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening . |
| 27 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 28 | Although our debate today will continue until 2 am , there is a long list of hon. Members who wish to speak and I promised to be brief . |
| 29 | It clearly sets out to branches delivery goals that depots intend to achieve and it sets out how , in return , the branches can aid the delivery process . |
| 30 | When words bring the required response there is less need to scream and it becomes all right to ask . |