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Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Yes , so there 's nothing we can say we 're not we do n't want want to make them feel awkward about it I mean they have planned what they can plan .
2	No I 'll see how I 'm feeling the thing is I do want to go to enjoy it .
3	And few cared to try to put him down .
4	But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it .
5	‘ I see you 've come to know me well , ’ responded Antony .
6	He 'll need encouraging to do it .
7	Then you try it out , and decide whether you want to continue to use it — if it 's no good to you , then nothing further needs to be done .
8	Prosecutors must determine if they want to continue to harry him .
9	I can not remember whether he has arranged to visit me at Twickenham .
10	The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ .
11	Now you will know there are a great many er programmes on television nowadays and articles in newspapers and magazines designed to try to help us to be a bit more aware
12	So in order to speed it up a little bit we might need need to heat it up .
13	4 You work in a bookshop , someone has telephoned to ask you to put the last copy of a particular book ( which will be difficult to replace ) on one side .
14	If your mail to a debtor is returned with this notation and he has forgotten to leave you his new address all is not lost .
15	Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion .
16	He once locked two visiting American soldiers inside the cathedral one evening and promised to come to let them out in half an hour but forgot to come .
17	Perhaps the time has come to test it .
18	‘ It has come to take you away , ’ said a German who spoke English .
19	Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said .
20	The sea has come to claim us —
21	They are all faced with the power of God in Jesus who has come to destroy them .
22	I will argue , in this paper that , although valuable information is currently being lost to history , it need not and it should not be lost and the time has come to prevent it .
23	Every ache and pain , every common cold , every bout of indigestion , every headache , every broken bone has its emotional meaning , and has come to help us — if we will listen to its message .
24	At last Robert Sheldrake said , ‘ Good veterinary nurses are sometimes difficult to find , but Dawn is an old friend who has come to help us out in our new venture . ’
25	She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon .
26	‘ They know what she has come to tell them . ’
27	He has come to tell us that the feast is about to begin and we must go down immediately . ’
28	‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 .
29	We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us .
30	Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear .