Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary is very sorry that she has to put off coming to dinner tonight They are not sure about getting a baby-sitter . |
| 2 | Los Angeles plans to stop slowly choking to death : John Lichfield , in Los Angeles , finds out how California 's biggest city intends to reverse 20 years of lax pollution control with an assault on its ‘ drive-in ’ lifestyle |
| 3 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 4 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 5 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |