Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | WFS did not publically declare itself to be affiliated to any independent grass roots campaigns who are actually working on the ground with ordinary people — for example , the Tottenham 3 Campaign , Birmingham 6 Campaign etc . |
| 2 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 3 | Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use , I talked the matter over with my agent . |
| 4 | Knowing that I would be visiting Australia on a project which did not actually take me to Sydney , yet sensing the need for images for general library use . |
| 5 | Uxbridge had eloped with the wife of the Duke 's younger brother , which did not precisely endear him to the Duke . |
| 6 | Although Marx and Engels did not systematically apply themselves to crime and its treatment , they too showed some ambivalence in their attitudes to the status of crime under capitalism . |
| 7 | Local GPs and social workers need to know that guaranteed specialist assistance is at hand both day and night and , as distress and despair do not conveniently confine themselves to the hours of nine to five , this means having experienced consultant psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses on call for community work at all times . |
| 8 | Such contradictory findings do not immediately lend themselves to providing a basis for a programme of legislative reform . |
| 9 | The promises do not readily lend themselves to precise costings . |
| 10 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 11 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 12 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 13 | ‘ You did n't even say anything to Barbara Coleman ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't really expect it to be like this , ’ says Howard . |
| 15 | And that he did n't really want me to . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't want the students to be ’ , she recalls , ‘ I did n't really want anybody to be , and I certainly did n't think students had any right to be . |
| 17 | In retrospect , he says , ‘ Thatcherism did n't really offer anything to kids at the age of fourteen . |
| 18 | I did n't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself , physically , on the outside . |
| 19 | Behind the myth of the big drinkers like Hughie Gallacher and Jim Baxter , are the people who did n't quite make it to the realm of myth , the lonely bores , the manic depressives , the failed fullbacks and the defeated unfortunates who had to retire early and find a job in the real world . |
| 20 | He nodded , the merest inclination of the head , to say , well , he did n't necessarily commit himself to agreeing but that he was n't ruling it out as a might-have-been either . |
| 21 | Well I did n't actually expect you to be in really |
| 22 | I demonstrated the knitting of the ‘ sandwich ’ neckline but did n't actually sew it to the garment in class . |
| 23 | ‘ If there 's any problems we do n't just leave it to one member of staff , we try to sort it out together . |
| 24 | Do n't just leave it to the media and politicians to protest — get up and do it yourself . |
| 25 | Do n't just leave it to the marketing people . |
| 26 | It 's very important that you read widely , both novels and playscripts , and do n't just confine yourself to an exam syllabus . |
| 27 | ‘ Lions do n't generally allow themselves to be dictated to . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 29 | we do n't actually do anything to I mean sometimes you get comments about the way that it 's helped people . |
| 30 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |