Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could he think of abandoning her to the malevolent clutches of this voracious monster ? |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 4 | ‘ Many would subscribe towards sinking him to the ocean bed . |
| 5 | Because producers are valuing the resources in terms of the price producers could get by transferring them to the meals industry . |
| 6 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |