Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ is a special time of prayer and sharing , of offering one 's suffering for the good of the Church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who , by suffering , dying and rising , achieved the salvation of mankind . |
| 2 | No one would accuse the Americans of being frightened of the new , or the Indians of refusing to show emotion , or of inability to communicate , but all need to work in an environment which encourages them to give of their best , and encourages them to look outwards rather than inwards . |
| 3 | ‘ In other words , you do n't want me to behave in my usual bull-headed manner . ’ |
| 4 | If people hear about the boy , he thought , perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep . |
| 5 | I would also like to thank the Nature Conservancy Council 's Upland Vegetation Survey and Andrew Currie for allowing me to quote from their unpublished reports . |
| 6 | Those who need personal assistance to enable them to live in their own homes have too often been consigned either to institutions or to enforced dependence on their families . |
| 7 | The Community Health Team aim was to ensure a place of treatment for children from the earliest possible age , to enable them to develop to their fullest potential . |
| 8 | Funding for care in the community will be ‘ ring fenced ’ so that it goes to the elderly , infirm and those with disabilities to enable them to stay in their own homes if they wish . |
| 9 | So when Jesus breathes his Spirit upon them after the resurrection , it is to enable them to enter into his own mission received from the Father and proclaim forgiveness of sins to believers , and doom to the impenitent ( 20:20–23 ) . |
| 10 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 11 | " And he wants me to go with him this time — as his driver . " |
| 12 | I cost him a lot in little things , but I know he wants me to ask for something big . |
| 13 | He had not expected me to ask about his 1936 visit to Nazi Germany . |
| 14 | It should be emphasized that this has nothing to do with our normal perception of color ; quarks are far too small to be seen by visible light . |
| 15 | But White says that row has nothing to do with his vehement stance on the Sahabi bone issue . |
| 16 | Discretion has nothing to do with it any more . " |
| 17 | And your inability to decide or to order has nothing to do with your mental powers . |
| 18 | If they want someone to work on their own initiative , don ‘ t be afraid to tell them in your application that you can do that . |
| 19 | I want you to look for anything unusual — anything that could be due to a black hole . |
| 20 | Unlike most tour operators , who are happy for you to go to any one of several countries , we are thoroughly biased — we want you to come to our OWN country . |
| 21 | it also has something to do with her predominant yearning for an idyllic space which is similar to the yearning for a classical Golden Age . |
| 22 | Perhaps the confidence of physicists noted by Becher ( forthcoming ) has something to do with their apparent irreducibility . |
| 23 | I want him to return to his old life , which I consider would be much better for him . |
| 24 | A group of vengeful noblemen invited him to dine with them one evening , served him poisoned food and wine and then set about murdering him — a process that was anything but straightforward . |
| 25 | She made friendly overtures , invited her to stay in their large , warm , scenic , colourful , untidy house in Sussex , told Alix to live for herself and look to the future , offered to look after the baby whenever Alix needed a break . |
| 26 | She is still haunted by the grief of her husband 's death and this causes her to shrink into her own world of deception . |
| 27 | My father may leave everything to me , but I frankly would n't know what to do with it other than give it to Jamie . ’ |
| 28 | It lasts 40 minutes and contains so much inventive material in its one-movement , arch-like structure that one sometimes feels Holloway did not know what to do with it all , a pleasing problem for any composer today ! |
| 29 | But you see , Gianluigi 's cousin works in the museum and they 've got so much stuff there they literally do n't know what to do with it all , it just sits and rots in boxes in the cellar , no one ever sees it . |
| 30 | And this is what I want us to do during our two days together . |