Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have done nothing — absolutely nothing ! — to compromise your professional integrity , or to lose you the respect of your colleagues . |
| 2 | I he Bastard may wish you to stay , or to replace you . |
| 3 | If you take it to make yourself numb , in order to forget or to help you sleep , you are only using it to mask the symptoms of a distressing situation which will still be there tomorrow . |
| 4 | Time-lines can be used to describe a chronological narrative of events or to help you to analyse the inter-relationships ' of different factors , events and places . |
| 5 | To find the way , or to give you any advices . |
| 6 | It does not need a lawyer either to draw up any document or to advise you although you may wish to consult a professional adviser if a particularly large sum is involved or if there are complicated conditions surrounding the gift . |
| 7 | The proprietors are happy to provide dinner with prior notice or to direct you to any of the many pubs and restaurants within a three-mile radius . |
| 8 | I do not want to mislead you , or to deter you from making the right personal decision . |
| 9 | If your employer has the right , for example , to insist that you undertake certain other tasks or to move you to another department , your job will be at risk if you dig in your heels and disobey . |
| 10 | I think it would be best now to tell you what happened this afternoon . |
| 11 | I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain . |
| 12 | " Nothing would give your mother greater pleasure I 'm sure , Chuck , than to see you bring distinction to yourself and your family , " cut in the senator reprovingly before his wife could reply . |
| 13 | But they will be designed to encourage you to be a long-term holder rather than to enable you to take a quick profit . |
| 14 | Thus I might argue that to know you must be certain , but that one can never be really certain and hence one can never really know . |
| 15 | I do not exist except to serve you and give you pleasure . |
| 16 | Learning Do you realize that to win you need to keep learning , especially from your mistakes ? |
| 17 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 18 | ‘ Adolph , I would like nothing better than to give you the chance to start your life again , but Colonel Goreng … he 's the cautious one . |
| 19 | members to members , and not perhaps for officers to interfere too much other than to give you background information , and it has been falling off , let me just say that . |
| 20 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 21 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 22 | ‘ People must realise that to hack you must be willing to use other people 's passwords , other people 's money and to rip companies off . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 25 | In some circumstances , of course , this perception is justified : if you are a boy in Tanzania selling peanuts in the street in order to survive , you may be perfectly correct in your perception that the policeman approaching you is going to blackmail you for not having a street seller 's license , rather than to assist you in making an honest living . |
| 26 | ‘ Personally , I ca n't think of anything I 'd like more than to have you as a brother-in-law . ’ |
| 27 | None is inherently better than another , but the variance indicates a keenness from most that to upgrade you must buy from them . |
| 28 | Except to remind you that we have a late summary of today 's main news at eleven o'clock . |
| 29 | That 's just about it except to remind you that this weekend it 's the ITV Telethon . |
| 30 | To my way of thinking you had seen too much of my secretary , I decided on that instant that to take you out of his vicinity was an excellent idea . ’ |