Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place . |
| 2 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |
| 3 | After fertilization one or both of the parents may look after and help to rear the offspring . |
| 4 | If the invention is a product , the patent is infringed by making , disposing of or offering to dispose of , using , importing or keeping the product . |
| 5 | 13.2 Should the Company for any reason whatsoever not procure the preparation of or fail to deliver each new edition then the Publisher shall be free to employ an alternative writer ( or writers ) to edit the work in such manner as the Publisher may consider appropriate and the Publisher will be entitled to deduct all or part of the remuneration payable to the alternative writer(s) from royalties payable to the Company on that edition . |
| 6 | The task of the student of politics is to discern the distinctive features of that continuity and change , to generate concepts , and , if possible , to construct models and theories that will aid understanding of and serve to explain those distinctive features and the relationship among them . |
| 7 | But also the administration of and trying to rectify the |
| 8 | He said staff had to be aware of and attempt to neutralise the promotional tactics used to give the impression that health-care professionals endorse products , for example the provision of free pens , mugs and calendars with company logos . |
| 9 | I am in receipt of your letter of and have to advise you that I have searched my records from to and can find no trace of a divorce between and during that period in the Court of Session . |
| 10 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 11 | He was the son of and seems to have been co-ruler with King Cenred ( see Appendix , Fig. 3 ) , whose advice he acknowledges in his laws which date to the period before 693/4 ( when Eorcenwald , bishop of London , whose help he also acknowledges , died ) . |
| 12 | Only ask questions on these topics if there is something you are genuinely unsure of and need to clarify . |
| 13 | Wilde ( 1988 ) does accept that like physiological arousal feelings of subjective risk are not necessarily focal in the driver 's consciousness but he claims that there is continual level of subjective risk which the driver will become aware of if asked to report on it or if there are sudden changes in level . |
| 14 | ‘ She develops this grandiose theory of herself as being important , and makes Truth Or Dare which I saw a couple of minutes of but had to stop watching because it was so unpleasant and embarrassing and awful . |
| 15 | the gay male parody of a certain femininity , which , as others have argued , may itself be an elaborate social construct , is both a way of giving vent to the hostility toward women that probably afflicts every male ( and which male heterosexuals have of course expressed in infinitely nastier and more effective ways ) and could paradoxically be thought of as helping to deconstruct that image for women themselves … |
| 16 | Similarly , the suppressed sadist who exercises the inclination by verbal humiliation might be thought of as needing to dominate , while the one who by word and action emotionally breaks down the victim as a person might be destructive . |
| 17 | It is the sovereign who decides whom to send for and invite to form a government . |
| 18 | Somehow , both mothers have to be visited , cared for and made to feel wanted . |
| 19 | Thus the same researcher not only carries out the basic work on a new product but — equally important — is out in the market-place looking for and trying to solve customer problems . |
| 20 | Write down all the difficult questions that you do n't feel you have an answer for and try to find a person or a book that helps you answer them . |
| 21 | Parents often feel that their children should not have everything that they ask for and try to provide some restraint . |
| 22 | There are three attributes that you should look out for and try to develop in your paragraphs . |
| 23 | The West has simply ‘ rediscovered ’ in Africa ( despite the diversity and complexity of that continent 's cultures ) fundamental values that we imagine were lost or repressed in the high noon of civilization and progress : values like ‘ natural ’ well-being , spontaneity , conviviality , uninhibitedness , everything we long for and want to relearn in the 1980s . |
| 24 | The professional may make more effort , knowing that the client is paying good money for his or her services , in a society that values things that are paid for and tends to devalue those that are not . |
| 25 | It seemed to Joan that the wedding-ring was burning her finger ; it caught the light , glistering brightly as if wishing to draw attention to the fact that it was embellishing an alien hand . |
| 26 | Filled with world-weariness and self-disgust , she towelled herself zealously , as if wishing to flay herself . |
| 27 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 28 | Arsenal started the 1932–3 season as if determined to erase the unhappy memories of the previous spring . |
| 29 | as if determined to seize the initiative , Natasha said as soon as the maid had gone : ‘ I was shocked to hear of Sam 's abduction . |
| 30 | The ship leaped and juddered as if trying to turn to inside out . |