Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may want to instruct him to say each pair twice all the way through , without you having to ask for a repeat each time . |
| 2 | Essays will be a central part of your work , both during the course and finally in examinations where you will need to use them to demonstrate historical knowledge , skills and thought . |
| 3 | If at the time the issue arises the patient still has capacity to decide , they can not only explore the scope of his decision with the patient , but can seek to persuade him to alter that decision . |
| 4 | When the Minister had ended the meeting with the words , ‘ Now , Mr Sanders , what can we do to persuade you to put more investment in Ireland ? ’ the Englishman had replied , ‘ The best advocate you could have , Minister , to influence more investment in your country , is a local plant manager who consistently turns in good results , year after year . |
| 5 | Algy must remember to ask you to come next time I give a little party for her . |
| 6 | I do not want to do anything to jeopardise that process . |
| 7 | Mr Tondut of Roo Management expressed outrage at the difficulties conservationists caused him and was quoted in the national press as saying , ‘ I do n't want to do anything to damage these houses . |
| 8 | If you make college too comfortable nobody will ever want to leave it to do proper work . |
| 9 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 10 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 12 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 13 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 14 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |
| 15 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 16 | You could also try to persuade them to use recycled stationery . |
| 17 | It makes me so angry — any one of them could have found something to rest that child on , but no , they all stand there in case they get blood on their hands and watch the child suffer — ’ |
| 18 | He knew that it was a stupid notion and that she , of all people , would n't have wanted him to think this way , but he could n't help it . |
| 19 | Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them . |
| 20 | This could have forced us to accept fixed exchange rates for the pound , restricting industrial growth and so putting jobs at risk . |
| 21 | Yeah well you , you should n't have to threaten somebody to get good service . |
| 22 | He says he would have liked it to continue this way . |
| 23 | The offer , from ABC , came shortly after the last episode was screened and would have required him to make twenty-four programmes a year for a possible five years . |
| 24 | If all of that can combine to enable her to become that champion , that British champion , then never mind Spycatcher , the LTA will undoubtedly have pulled off … a very British coup . |