Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promises quite often concern the actions of others : to consent to be governed by another is to promise to obey him ; to consent to his joining the expedition is to promise to provide him with the facilities and the help made available to members of the expedition . |
| 2 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 3 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 4 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 5 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 6 | Holly straightened himself , shrugged at his shoulders to try to rid himself of the weariness , gazed back at the man 's face . |
| 7 | ‘ Strangely enough , ’ Ockleton had said , Harry having to strain to hear him amidst the noise and smoke as closing time drew near , ‘ Rex was the one who seemed to interest Heather the most . |
| 8 | Events in Eastern Europe will affect all farmers and growers so it is important to try to understand something of the problems . |
| 9 | ‘ For you know , we are obliged to try to amuse ourselves during the hunt . ’ |
| 10 | although they know that it costs twice as much to try to collect it as the amount that they actually collect . |
| 11 | The probationers told him to remember that every minute he was getting a little better , and Ward Sister told him not to make any effort , and not to try to take anything by the mouth . |
| 12 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 13 | When all is said and done , the attraction of earning a living playing a sport you enjoy is a strong one and it is not hard to understand why some players have to try to make it on the Tour . |
| 14 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 15 | I would gladly say , ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ and at once part company with him , realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to tlatter him with an imitation which he has always disdained . |
| 16 | At one extreme , it is possible to try to commit everything on the tape to paper . |
| 17 | Sometimes children like to list the names of the members of their family and in this way we can help them to count how many there are , and help them to remember to include themselves in the count ! |
| 18 | ‘ And then having to remember to unearth them before the day ! |
| 19 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 20 | better than not being able to afford to do it at the moment , |
| 21 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 22 | What would you be looking for us to do to help you as the candidate if you win ? |
| 23 | Anwar would find him something else to do to get him in the grocery mood . |
| 24 | ‘ However , there are a lot of good players from around Europe playing on the Swedish Tour and it made me realise what I have to do to make it as a pro . |
| 25 | The alternative was to wait a further two or three years until a civil case could reach a hearing in the overcrowded Northern Ireland courts and then to endeavour to fight it with the state using against him the formidable privileges and stratagems available to it . |
| 26 | She used to regularly get tickets for Hancock 's Half Hour radio shows simply for the chance to see Ken at work — ‘ Men used to fight to escort me to the broadcasts . ’ |
| 27 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 28 | I had hoped to intervene to ask him about the extent of the Bill , but he sat down very rapidly at the end of his speech . |
| 29 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 30 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |