Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there any reason why I should not send you to prison for a very long time ’ |
| 2 | She hardly knew what she was saying ; only knew that she must somehow rouse him to movement . |
| 3 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 4 | Then again , I wondered if I should n't leave it to charity . |
| 5 | The resulting chronology should then enable one to date particular instruments according to the presence of certain features . |
| 6 | You 'll only frighten her to death . ’ |
| 7 | Well this one seems to go to bed a bit later now , so she goes longer , but she 's feeding all day today , , I 'm at every couple of hours , so with a bit of luck , I 'll finally put her to bed maybe half past nine ten o'clock , she might go through till three or four , which is n't bad . |
| 8 | That 's what they 'll say and they 'll probably send me to prison . ’ |
| 9 | One dealer urged a client not to pay for losses on roll-on account trades his Harvard dealer had put him into : " Harvard 'll never take you to court , " he said . |
| 10 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 11 | ‘ If I could totally devote myself to tennis maybe that would help and I 'd be more into my tennis , but I 'm not that way . |
| 12 | ‘ It was partly wanting to say to my children that on one day a week I could always take them to school . |
| 13 | A pet problem could also force you to fork out . |
| 14 | Suppose she thought she could probably get them to school , but ca n't bring them home . |
| 15 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
| 16 | I Could n't decide which to card to go , oh yeah that 's it . |
| 17 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 18 | The next day she said , ‘ I could n't give one to daddy because there were n't enough . |
| 19 | Shame I could n't take it to University with me that 'll be interesting ! |
| 20 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 21 | er but I could n't get it to work . |
| 22 | THE NINETEENTH century could never reconcile itself to Cosi fan tutte , that most consistently inspired of great operas . |
| 23 | I think they dare n't take it to Road at Nottingham for some reason . |
| 24 | That leaves obvious questions about why exactly this illuminates decisions by finite human agents in worlds full of ‘ friction ’ , but we would rather leave them to Chapter 6 , where Game Theory will be found illuminating for thinking about international relations in an ideal-typical way . |
| 25 | ‘ I shall not take him to Court . |
| 26 | Left alone , the place would rapidly choke itself to death , it seemed . |
| 27 | A few minutes before , he had tried to add ‘ We apologize for nothing ’ to the rules in his head , but he knew that Sara would always move him to compunction . |
| 28 | That would still give us to complaint examiners , because the formula is nearly four . |
| 29 | He would n't take it to school for Barry and his mates to kick round the playground . |
| 30 | She turned to him and smiled coolly : " You would n't like me to size you up , would you ? " |