Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence not only were there more old people , but more of them became unable to support themselves at earlier ages . |
| 2 | May the Lord use us to ensure that everyone has enough to eat . |
| 3 | ‘ Khan , if you want me to encourage Artai to order an expedition , say so . ’ |
| 4 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 5 | They need those decision structures because it is impossible for them to know enough to control activities directly . |
| 6 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to work so hard in the week I had no energy left to enjoy weekends and I became awful to live with . |
| 8 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 9 | On reaching my eighth birthday , I became eligible to join the Juvenile Section of The Salisbury Public Library , something which I quickly did . |
| 10 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 11 | Finally , in order to have a word with the silent Cis , I asked Elfed to fetch Richard , who had been awaiting in the kitchen the result of the meeting . |
| 12 | I made ready to slip away down the passage . |
| 13 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 14 | at that church one she has learnt so much erm I mean this to speak French , now she speaking it in three weeks ! |
| 15 | And he adds : ‘ I remain determined to provide as much practical help and advice as possible to long-term unemployed people . ’ |
| 16 | But I sold that to help pay the mortgage . ’ |
| 17 | When I go for a night session I make sure to arrive well before darkness , usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8 p.m. in summer , when dusk does not fall until 10 p.m. or so . |
| 18 | If my chosen hookbait is bread then I make sure to use mashed bread in the groundbait mix . |
| 19 | He was glad when I got pregnant to start off with , but he 's changed . |
| 20 | I got straight to work . |
| 21 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 22 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 23 | Ten pound and twenty pound and twenty-five pound which apart from anything else I found easier to remember when filling out a form , but I think that may think it 's not worth doing . |
| 24 | ‘ I followed my instinct , it was an offer I found difficult to refuse . |
| 25 | Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue . |
| 26 | He does n't shout or bark out orders and that cool approach was something I found difficult to come to terms with when I first arrived at Liverpool . |
| 27 | Thus , in spite of the large amount of flying experience I had accumulated overseas , I found that it was of little use to me back in the UK , I did find , however , that my seniority as an NCO seemed to attract functions that I found difficult to avoid . |
| 28 | ‘ So , I propose first to employ implicit honesty . |
| 29 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 30 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |