Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them . |
| 2 | Nowadays all serious conditions were diagnosed before the child was born and steps taken either to correct them or to abort the foetus . |
| 3 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 4 | Moreover , there is no room here to explore the comments further , to probe the reasoning behind them or to see to what extent they represent a wider consensus . |
| 5 | If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 6 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
| 7 | You do not try to catch them out , to trap them or to expose them as inadequate in any way . |
| 8 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 9 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 10 | So the simplest method of disconnecting the pipes is to saw through them or to cut through them with a pipe cutter . |
| 11 | The most obvious initiatives are to seek an idea from someone or to put an idea yourself ( see Seeking ideas on page 152 and Idea-having on page 86 ) . |
| 12 | To find common ground we have to be ready to disclose information about ourselves and to point out shared interests through chit-chat : ‘ I heard you went to London University . |
| 13 | Humility enables us to be wise about ourselves and to learn to resist our weaknesses more firmly . |
| 14 | Express ourselves and to make ourselves understood by others . |
| 15 | As the net tightened , though , and those were taken away , so the only possible freedom became to protect ourselves and to try to consolidate our position . |
| 16 | Should such a test be used in the course of teaching , low scores would not enable the teacher to decide what tasks can reasonably be given to the pupils who obtain them nor to decide what experiences may be suitable to forward their development . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) Where a sale by auction is not notified to be subject to a right to bid on behalf of the seller , it is not lawful for the seller to bid himself or to employ any person to bid at such a sale , or for the auctioneer knowingly to take any bid from the seller or any such person . |
| 18 | However in this situation the auctioneer may not accept a bid on behalf of the seller ; s57(4) and ( 5 ) provide : ( 4 ) Where a sale by auction is not notified to be subject to a right to bid by or on behalf of the seller , it is not lawful for the seller to bid himself or to employ any person to bid at the sale , or for the auctioneer knowingly to take any bid from the seller or any such person . |
| 19 | He waited for Ballater to explain himself or to state the reason for his visit . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's because he has n't learned to pace himself or to sort out what 's important and what is n't . |
| 21 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 22 | But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse . |
| 23 | Then started the discussion about where to store it until the inevitable happened , during the course of which the doorbell rang and an elderly neighbour was revealed who had kindly called to introduce himself and to ask if there was anything he could do to help me , as he had heard my husband was ill in hospital . |
| 24 | This leaves the Philistines [ middle-classes ] for the great bulk of the nation ; — a livelier sort of Philistine than ours , and with the pressure and false ideal of our Barbarians taken away , but left all the more to himself and to have his full swing . |
| 25 | Yet it was comforting , too , when he was alone — especially at night — to say her name to himself and to think of all the good things about her . |
| 26 | In such an organization one 's boss is forever seeking to cover himself and to avoid taking responsibility . |
| 27 | His dog-leg patrimony ( his uncle was Lord Chelmsford ) has enabled him to support himself and to help some others . |
| 28 | In all its forms , its object is to raise man above himself and to make him lead a life superior to that which he would lead , if he followed only his own individual whims : beliefs express this life in representations ; rites organize it and regulate its working . |
| 29 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 30 | Now he was wrestling with the bit about ‘ God leading thee into the w-w-wilderness for forty years to humble thee and to p-p-prove thee . ’ |