Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 2 | I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression . |
| 3 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 4 | If I am to change it I feel that I might as well put a larger engine in it , could you please advise me what would be the best petrol engine and would I have to convert it to 12 volt ; which I do n't really want to do . |
| 5 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 6 | Since all had been well before Kirsty went into hospital to have her appendix removed — and since many people have a very real terror of hospitals in general — I decided to regress her to that particular time . |
| 7 | ‘ And , being the modern-day equivalent of Casanova , I decide to add you to this impressive circle of conquests ? ’ |
| 8 | I knew I had to bring it to some kind of confession , but saying , ‘ I love you , ’ to a woman who loved another man ? |
| 9 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 10 | ‘ And why would you want to take me to this auction ? |
| 11 | Do you want to change it to fifteen hundred thousand ? |
| 12 | What happens if you issue one to , you manage to get it to this department today but ca n't get it to that department 'til tomorrow and . |
| 13 | The essential point , however , is not what advantage any one party might derive from the WGMS : it is the assurance that unless you choose to give it to some tiny party your second vote will count . |
| 14 | And if you can afford it , you need to sell it to all your clients , because it is absolutely brilliant . |
| 15 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 16 | To understand them properly , however , we need to relate them to wider social structures , and we shall consider this aspect of sociolinguistics in chapter 7 . |
| 17 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 18 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 19 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |
| 20 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 21 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |