Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to enable everyone to advise you on the possibilities you may choose to explore . |
| 2 | By law , all gas and electric fires have now to be fitted with a fire-guard by the manufacturers , and when helping an elderly Person to choose one it is wise to encourage her to buy one with the on/off control switch on the top or high up on the side , to avoid unnecessary bending . |
| 3 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 4 | To expect her to bury herself in the back of beyond , away from all her friends with just Penry Vaughan for company , constituted adequate grounds for divorce in her view . ’ |
| 5 | This is perhaps understandable , but it is stretching credulity to expect us to bless it as the highest human freedom . |
| 6 | If they are trying to use me to get something for the museum , then I shall think of something else . |
| 7 | He therefore called on the other three republics to accept Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union in this regard , and to delegate it to represent them over the START treaty and future negotiations . |
| 8 | Now that the election has been announced , will the Minister take the opportunity to apologise to the industry 's workers and employers for failing to do anything to protect them in the past 13 years ? |
| 9 | I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product . |
| 10 | ‘ I rather hope I may get those concerned to invite me to do you in the Authors and their Work series — though I have n't done anything about it — I might then like to quote a bit or two out of a letter ( e.g. about Ivy ) , but I devoutly hope you will be able to censor the thing for yourself ’ — for there was still hope , or I was allowed to think so . |
| 11 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 12 | After Charlie had finished dressing , he found Sal and Kitty waiting for him by the front door , but he refused to allow them to accompany him to the station , despite their tearful protest . |
| 13 | She was determined to allow nobody to treat her as a child in future — not Sam , not Adam , not Elinor , not Buzz , and certainly not Miranda . |
| 14 | If Tom wanted her she would go to Tom , just to be with someone , to have someone to hold her in the night . |
| 15 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 16 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 17 | If he is in a bargaining mood , he might like to ask them to furnish him with a new typewriter . |
| 18 | Later , changing into his dinner jacket in the executive cloakroom , Matthew wished he had thought to ask someone to accompany him to the chairman 's party . |
| 19 | All we we 've agreed that we 're going to need someone to control it at the next fair . |
| 20 | " We were going to ask you to fix it in the pot so it 'll stand up , " I said quickly . |
| 21 | ‘ She also told me she is going to ask you to help her in a little project , ’ he said , grinning mischievously . |
| 22 | So an important strategy for helping the learner is occasionally to list , at the end of the piece or work you are marking , all the errors the pupil has made , writing them correctly and clearly , and to ask him to study them in the way the Basic spelling strategy " B " suggests ( page 11 ) . |
| 23 | He was tempted to tell her to hire someone from the gutter press if she wanted more earthy writing , or some bloody feminist if she wanted a sensitive novel . |