Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.

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1 Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you .
2 At a general level the answer is easy ; it is because their families are unable to look after them , control them or because they cause them to be ‘ at risk ’ .
3 Members of the political élite may give a president their support out of friendship or because they find him to be a likeable person .
4 They do n't want to risk a break-up — perhaps for the sake of the children , or because it suits them to be married for other reasons .
5 And does he love you as you are , or as he wants you to be ?
6 John Nutting , prosecuting , said that although he said nothing to detectives after his arrest , with a lock knife in his hand , they later found a chilling message daubed on his police cell wall .
7 Before they started , he had warned his people on this , pointing out that if they allowed themselves to be delayed , they themselves would be in grave danger of being ridden down by their own fellows on the return charge .
8 Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly .
9 If we can start into the budget then , I think members will be fully aware of the wider context that the County Council finds itself in , and we 're not proposing to rehearse that at any great length for you other than if you wish us to er , run through that again .
10 And I do that say that because I want you to be feel my commitment to what what we 're trying to do here .
11 We suppose that when somebody says something to us , it is meant to be informative , has some warrant in fact and is not a deliberate obfuscation or falsehood ( for further detail and discussion see Grice 1975 ; Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) .
12 The position is that when we admit anyone to nursing home care , they can only be admitted if there is a joint assessment partly by a social worker from this department , partly by either the nurse or G P , or consultant , and the , the key element needless to say in that , in terms of need , is very much the health authority input .
13 ‘ You must have realised that when you summoned him to your hotel to break the news — ’
14 I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger .
15 I knew that when I sold it to you . ’
16 Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ .
17 so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ?
18 It 's one of these things that sound much more complicated than when I explain it to you .
19 I can see the range , where it is , and where I want it to be .
20 He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to .
21 And if they tell her to bed down in a flea-pit , that 's what she 'll do .
22 And if they ask you to it probably means they 're in trouble anyway .
23 P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’
24 And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in .
25 And if they wanted him to be boring then that would be the performance that he would offer .
26 But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace .
27 Two hundred and fifty five , and if we did it to he 's absolutely right , erm then this one should have given his bearing as two fifty three minus seventy , which comes to , what does that come to ?
28 The rest of his property he left to his girl Agnes and to their child , if it were born alive , and if it showed itself to be of a good , kind character .
29 Okay if you just sort of like think of a vague title which sums up what the things are which you want to cover in the essay and if you get it to me by Monday then that that 'll be quite good .
30 ‘ Well , they can just think again , ’ replied Rachel hotly , ‘ and if anyone says anything to you on those lines I would be obliged if you would put them straight . ’
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