Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I asked Jesus to help us , and to forgive Jack and me and to make Dad happy . |
| 2 | If the terms of redemption merely provided for their redemption at par , their holders would be highly vulnerable ; for if interest rates fell since the date of issue it would clearly pay the company to redeem them and to borrow money at a lower rate of interest than the fixed dividend . |
| 3 | The Corporation had ordered fifteen new cars to replace them and to make space in the depôts , took the B.E.T . |
| 4 | Afterwards he got in touch , not to sign me but to offer encouragement and say that he liked the album . |
| 5 | I want the United Kingdom to live at peace with all its European neighbours — to trade and to co-operate with them but to retain control of its defences and of its foreign and economic policies . |
| 6 | You may feel you are moving very slowly , but in fact you will simply be counteracting a nervous tendency to rush headlong into everything and to lose control of what is going on . |
| 7 | The meeting blamed the ANC for the violence in Natal , calling on it to abandon the so-called " armed struggle " ; furthermore , it urged the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela " to accept [ Buthelezi 's ] repeated invitation to sit down with him and to talk peace " . |
| 8 | The seventh principle relates to a data subject 's right to know ‘ at reasonable intervals ’ if personal data is held on him and to have access to such data . |
| 9 | And when father came and took mother for his wife , to live with her and to take care of her , the little egg began to grow and grow into a real little baby . |
| 10 | The Holy Spirit is God 's gift to us , and he means us not just to read about him but to make use of him . |
| 11 | She did not regain consciousness at any point ; it was almost , he thought bitterly , as if it were not worth her while to say goodbye to him . |
| 12 | The story of how Cnut 's brother Harald became king of Denmark after Swegen 's death and refused either to divide it or to help Cnut reconquer England does not square with Thietmar of Merseburg 's statement that he was in England in 1016 : were there aspects of Cnut 's relationship with Harald upon which the Encomiast , if he knew of them , did not wish to dwell ? |
| 13 | When it was shot , the nearest town turned out en masse to welcome the man who had killed it and to pour champagne over the corpse . |
| 14 | The purpose of a sleeping bag is to insulate the body from the cold around it and to prevent heat from escaping . |
| 15 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 16 | William I of Normandy took over a new country and , to unite it and to bring peace and prosperity to it in accordance with his ideas , he had to show strength . |
| 17 | There was nothing for it but to accept defeat , which he did with an ill grace , stamping off in disgust followed by the jeers of the crowd and several small boys who ran behind him mimicking his rolling gait . |
| 18 | I justify myself on the grounds that I do n't indulge in idle gossip and have never sought to aggrandise myself or to do harm to others . |
| 19 | A COSATU statement also gave full support to the ANC 's May 9 ultimatum , and called on its members to arm themselves and to form self-defence units " in a disciplined and organized way " . |
| 20 | Sea anemones possess stinging cells in their tentacles , which they use to protect themselves and to capture food . |
| 21 | Men use video cameras and produce and film ‘ news bulletins ’ as a useful way of learning to work in small groups , to see how they present themselves and to gain confidence generally . |
| 22 | Acceptance enables you not to have to hide things about yourself and to find freedom to be yourself . |
| 23 | But it is important not to become so mesmerized by them as to lose sight of the underlying social processes . |
| 24 | We have to balance this response with a consideration of the relationship the participants develop with the trainers , and to put some of the enthusiastic response down to a desire to please us and to peer group pressure . |
| 25 | She was one of the women we women were supposed to admire , she was supposed to speak for us and to bear testimony to our pain . |