Example sentences of "and [to-vb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask this council to ignore the recommendation from the housing committee and to support me in passing this amendment . |
| 2 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 3 | The tree was 360mm in diameter and to enable me to get the correct clearance around the tree and the seat width I drew a rough development on the patio with chalk . |
| 4 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 5 | And to establish I mean I think that as a g |
| 6 | He went on : ‘ The truth of the matter is that Mr Branson and the Virgin Group appear to be ’ determined to get the company exclusively for themselves and to exclude me from it . |
| 7 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 8 | And to help me provide some answers , I have with me Dick Grimsdale , who is Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the university ; Joe Turner , who is a Developmental Psychologist ; and Peter Dauber , who is a Physicist and colleague of mine . |
| 9 | First then , continuing our series of programmes on applications of computers , today we 're going to look at the so-called microprocessor , and to help me do this I have Doctor Fred Halsall and Doctor Paul Lister , who are engineers and specialists in this particular area . |
| 10 | ‘ I invited them to use anything they wanted to and to let me know if they could improve on it . |
| 11 | It was left to a clinical teacher to absorb this stress , and to persuade me that there was nothing to gain from ‘ abandoning the cause ’ . |
| 12 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 13 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |
| 14 | ‘ And to think I might have sailed up it had I not chosen to be independent . |
| 15 | And to think I invented that all by myself , ’ he added proudly . |
| 16 | ‘ And to think I was pleased , ’ Ralph said . |
| 17 | And to think I almost sold it just before the war to pay for a meal and a tawdry hotel room . ’ |
| 18 | And to think I doubted your commitment ! |
| 19 | And to think I was such a fool as to let it happen when I was thirty-five ! ’ ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And to think I was eventually sold for half-a-million ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And to think I 've waited all these years to sample French cookin' . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Your Grace , my father is but a merchant , and to marry me into this noble family he gave me a noble dowry , eight hundred marks . |
| 23 | It was good , everybody had told me that erm , you know , you did n't get very much money when you left school , about ten shillings and to offer me fifteen shillings I thought was out of this world , so erm |
| 24 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 25 | He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour . |
| 26 | Now I hear some of you saying this : ‘ Jesus saved me from my sins by taking my burdens himself ; he came to this earth to save me and to redeem me . ’ |
| 27 | THE 1987 heavyweight fight betwen Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno at Spurs was my first big promotion and to say I was wet behind the ears is an insult to water . |
| 28 | Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms . |
| 29 | I knew that I was being considered for the MBE , to be announced in the next Queen 's Birthday Honours , and to say I was stunned at the thought was an understatement . |
| 30 | And to lend me the flat — ’ |