Example sentences of "[vb base] the to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees . |
| 2 | That to situates the bare infinitive 's event as an after-position with respect to something else explains why so many grammarians associate the to infinitive in some or all of its uses with notions such as " future " ( Wierzbicka 1988 : 188 ) , " mere potentiality for action " ( Quirk et al. |
| 3 | If he agreed it he signed it and put the to which that was called a total waybill . |
| 4 | and then when you get the to the end of it all you sa you say and they sell that for an eighth of a price that you charge for your bloody beer ! |
| 5 | In the passive , verbs of perception almost always take the to infinitive : ( 59 ) He was seen to enter the building at 10:00 . |
| 6 | Bolinger does not mention it , but the opposite is also true : exclusively perceptual verbs refuse the to infinitive . |