Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 2 | We do not actually have in this supposed counter-example to transitivity what we must have , statements of the forms if P then Q , If Q then R , and If P then R. ( Mackie , 1980 ) Certainly , whatever is to be said of transitivity elsewhere , dependent nomic conditionals are transitive . |
| 3 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 4 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 5 | My question to Mr which he might like to comment on in his his summing up , is we 've heard about the forthcoming meeting which you 're going to arrange with the district council 's , how soon would you be able to make progress ? |
| 6 | ‘ I give to charity what I can afford . ’ |
| 7 | " … I would think it a sufficient detriment to the confider that information given in confidence is to be disclosed to persons whom he would prefer not to know of it , even though the disclosure would not be harmful to him in any positive way . " |
| 8 | ‘ You can not dictate to families what they can have . |
| 9 | Well it is it 's it 's planned pretty well as you know we we always take the summer off we never work during the summer because we do our recording and we make our video and then we 're ready for the road and the video 's released and there 's promotion put into it so er if we go to Australia which we 'll go on our next May and June you know it 's a good time out there for selling product as well so we will have an album released before we get out there and and everything will be planned out . |
| 10 | Erm the cluster makes you realise how you presented things to people what you can improve them having things in your hand that it it just makes you erm more nervous because you 're fumbling about what makes me more nervous you 're fumbling about with something trying to do something that you do n't really need to do . |
| 11 | Gerald Scarfe 's simple drawing of an empty chair was on the front and inside were pictures of John , information about the campaign , even a ready-to-send letter to MPs which you could tear out . |
| 12 | Having said that , I think we should be wary of falling into the trap of dictating to Morrissey what he should write about , or in what tone . |
| 13 | It will form the basis of a treaty which the President and I hope to sign during the official visit to Britain which he will make later this year . |
| 14 | Financial adviser Peter Hargreaves of Hargreaves Lansdown has produced a guide to Gilts which he will send free to Assets readers who call 0272 741 309 . |
| 15 | Every human being has duties to others which he must accept . |
| 16 | It is sensible personnel practice to have a standard letter available to employees which they can use to notify you of their situation and intentions . |