Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 8 | And that hurt was slight , compared to what it might have been if things had n't happened the way they had tonight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 12 | … 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 . |
| 13 | Everything that Margery says can be traced to what she would hear in sermons and readings . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Still , if it had happened to me I would have been angry . ’ |
| 16 | Left to themselves they will appropriate biotechnology as and when they need to . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 19 | left to me I 'd take all curtains down |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Left to myself I might have tried to persuade , to plead , to wheedle , to say how nice it was going to be at home . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ron Scriven , a spokesman for the Police Federation which represents police officers , said : ‘ If the Avon and Somerset report is forwarded to us we will study it and consider circulating the 43 forces in England and Wales with its findings . |