Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response of the Treasury official upon receiving the nomination , according to the duke , was to ‘ put the presentation in his pocket , desiring me rather to name somebody that might be useful for my interest , for nobody knows this Achterlonie ’ . |
| 2 | Then Stirling called everyone together to explain his plans . |
| 3 | It would suit them better to use their surplus cash to aid starving children in other countries . |
| 4 | The function of government intervention is less to tell people what they ought to like than to allow them better to achieve what they already like . |
| 5 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 6 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 7 | This is where we need to listen to what they 're asking and what they need , and give them enough to satisfy them . |
| 8 | It did n't take me long to realise I 'd fallen in love with love rather than with Dave . ’ |
| 9 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
| 10 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 11 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 12 | ‘ If the FA had asked me personally to select our opponents I 'd have gone for Orient , ’ said Still . |
| 13 | Our invaluable handbook , which otherwise retails at around £100 is included in membership — and members invariably find that knowledge gained via membership , be it from the Handbook , a seminar or fellow members , allows them annually to recover their membership subscription . |
| 14 | They trusted me enough to allow me into their ranks , but when I saw what they were planning I knew that the only answer was to destroy them , expose them . |
| 15 | And that annoyed me enough to drive me to my cabin , to clean myself up and choose fresh clothing . |
| 16 | You said then that I 'd never cope , but the farmers liked me enough to ask me to call again . ’ |
| 17 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 18 | Do you love me enough to marry me ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’ |
| 20 | However , I feel sure she values her friendship with me enough to play it our way . |
| 21 | The Minister wished to revoke them only to ensure he obtained the expected revenue from the increased cost . |
| 22 | If he is to continue , he should now be taking different movements and linking them together to form his fighting style — a format of defence and attack that becomes second nature to him . |
| 23 | Swearing vengeance on the villagers , he called them together to discover who had fired the fatal arrow . |
| 24 | It is your responsibility and yours alone to choose which voice to listen to , which voice to accept as a guide throughout your daily life . |
| 25 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 26 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |
| 27 | There may conceivably be cases where it is all right for someone willingly to allow themselves to be treated as a means . |
| 28 | The golden rule of this type of plan , in fact , there 's quite a few , the first one I really to want you to , just take on board , is that you can not be better off financially , by claiming under this policy , than you were when you were actually at work . |
| 29 | She wished there were someone here to support her and her soul cried out in longing : Friend ! |
| 30 | Now when you 're often they phone up and say , There 's someone here to see you . |