Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 2 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 3 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 4 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them . |
| 6 | If he came over to them she would have to introduce him , and that thought was enough to bring on near hysteria . |
| 7 | For we know not to what we should pray for as we ought . |
| 8 | I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me . |
| 9 | As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades . |
| 10 | The basic overdrive was there , but unless shielded in a mix the distortion sounds needed some tweaking to get close to what I 'd call a ‘ real ’ distorted guitar sound . |
| 11 | But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone . |
| 12 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 13 | And we have to specify internally to us what will meet the client needs and even just exceed the client needs . |
| 14 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Keith Fletcher and Graham Gooch are both members of the TCCB 's cricket committee and we shall listen carefully to whatever they might have to say in their end-of-tour reports . |
| 16 | The ski resort as such is not down in the valley at all , would that it were ; rather , it is perched to devastatingly conspicuous effect on the side of a mountain to the west , up to which you can go either by car along a new road or by cable-car from the centre of Saint-Lary . |
| 17 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 18 | He looked at his watch and said , " If it was up to me I would leave in ten minutes . " |
| 19 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 20 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 21 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 22 | He will in a minute , I 'll go up to him I 'll leave you to do that dirty horrible casserole dish . |
| 23 | Mark Wright , restored to the captaincy , squared up to anyone who would listen but the Spartak player was booked , as was Burrows as the melee died . |
| 24 | Well I think you should because erm , remember it 's up to you you should know . |
| 25 | Well it 's you know , it 's up to you you can look at whatever . |
| 26 | It 's not always easy for you to talk your problems through , but if there 's something bothering you , it might be a good idea to open up to someone who can help . |
| 27 | Sensitivity to the forces lying beneath the surface , seeing subtle connections between parts of the landscape that seem separate to us , would lead them inevitably to what we would call a form of astrology . |
| 28 | Now to me I might want to know that people use language to mean more than one thing . |
| 29 | talking about I mean us six er pe peasants we 've got a landlord , you know , oh shall we go and kill him , he , he 's got all the authority , he 's got armed militia , the works , now to me he could have |
| 30 | When er when you spot that number on the list that comes out to you you can claim . |