Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |
| 2 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 3 | Well that have actually been told that if anything comes in providing This is what I ca n't get through We 've said to them you can bring your radios in but give to Brian first . |
| 4 | On Mr. Pegg 's behalf , a further more detailed submission is made to which I shall refer later . |
| 5 | I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back . |
| 6 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 7 | The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child . |
| 8 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 9 | They have appealed to anyone who may have become suspicious about any car in the Edinburgh Road area to come forward . |
| 10 | Police have appealed to anyone who may have seen people acting suspiciously in the area of the hospital to contact them . |
| 11 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 12 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to anyone who can help police track down the killer of a seventy-six-year-old man in Northampton . |
| 13 | And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight . |
| 14 | not a lot of cost , compared to what it will cost if you do n't make a will and there are complications or if you make a home-made will and there are complications . |
| 15 | They went out from us but they did not really belong to us , for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going showed that none of them belong to us . |
| 16 | The clue is , of course , that if Archer 's coat was powder-stained his killer must have been someone known to him who could get up that close in the deserted night street where he met his end . |
| 17 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 18 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |
| 19 | Everything that Margery says can be traced to what she would hear in sermons and readings . |
| 20 | We called on the Attorney-General to refer his case to the Appeal Court so that the sentence could be increased to one which would protect women for a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ If anybody knows anything about what might have happened to her I would beg them to contact the police and tell them anything that might help . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Still , if it had happened to me I would have been angry . ’ |
| 23 | Left to themselves they will appropriate biotechnology as and when they need to . |
| 24 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 25 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 26 | left to me I 'd take all curtains down |
| 27 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 28 | Left to myself I might have tried to persuade , to plead , to wheedle , to say how nice it was going to be at home . |
| 29 | Left to myself I 'd leave it there two maybe three days , pick up an envelope now and then and try to guess who sent it . |
| 30 | Instead a new agreement will be sent to you which will advise of any alterations to the premium and credit charge for the year . |