Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM .
2 Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them .
3 I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me .
4 As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades .
5 The basic overdrive was there , but unless shielded in a mix the distortion sounds needed some tweaking to get close to what I 'd call a ‘ real ’ distorted guitar sound .
6 But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone .
7 At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’
8 And we have to specify internally to us what will meet the client needs and even just exceed the client needs .
9 If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done .
10 He said : ‘ Keith Fletcher and Graham Gooch are both members of the TCCB 's cricket committee and we shall listen carefully to whatever they might have to say in their end-of-tour reports .
11 Sensitivity to the forces lying beneath the surface , seeing subtle connections between parts of the landscape that seem separate to us , would lead them inevitably to what we would call a form of astrology .
12 Now to me I might want to know that people use language to mean more than one thing .
13 talking about I mean us six er pe peasants we 've got a landlord , you know , oh shall we go and kill him , he , he 's got all the authority , he 's got armed militia , the works , now to me he could have
14 Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father .
15 ‘ It is my hope and conviction that as we journey closer to him we shall find ourselves travelling with others and imperceptibly growing together into his beauty and likeness , and away from the ugliness and bitterness which has dogged the history of our Communions .
16 You had come back to me in order to show me your poems : there was no one else to whom you could show them .
17 I did n't give this observation a lot of thought until my father 's death left me with no one else to whom I could turn .
18 The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history .
19 ‘ The change does me good , dear , ’ she would explain gently but firmly to anyone who would listen .
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