Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm also I mean and to help them with the audio tour , because the audio tour despite all our efforts to be clear about how it works , continually confuses people and they sort of , oh where am I , I thought I was in here . |
| 2 | Well it takes , I mean if to start off with you 've got ta get rich peasants to save some surplus and then see he 's not gon na invest every single surplus in one year cos the harvest next year might be no good so you 've got the sort of vagaries of the Chinese weather situation so you 've obviously got ta sort of stock up |
| 3 | I say that to show that the payments are ludicrously inadequate — £6 last year , £6 this year and presumably the same next year . |
| 4 | I believe that to conquer fear of water , gentle persuasion is the best tack . |
| 5 | " I am simply making conversation while I decide whether to risk my job by telling you things that I certainly ought not to tell you . " |
| 6 | I decide whether to feel inadequate or not . |
| 7 | Nothing can make me feel inhibited — I decide whether to feel inhibited or not . |
| 8 | When they are stuck , it is so much more attractive to tell them what I think than to encourage and cajole them to tell me what they think . |
| 9 | I think that to support this motion would be extremely unfortunate and would lead to potential disaster , not for the county council but indeed for the Highfields community . |
| 10 | People thought he was doing this deliberately , because people never really believe that the beautiful lack confidence ; looking back , I think that to start with Boy must have been frightened almost all of the time . |
| 11 | I choose whether to feel guilty or not . |
| 12 | Well it 's starting earlier than that , but I wonder whether to leave it until because I might already know most of |
| 13 | It aims both to describe the facilities and services which exist and to evaluate their contribution to the satisfaction of health care needs in Britain . |
| 14 | An essay tests your ability to analyse a given question , to develop a line of argument , to explain clearly what you mean and to express a point of view so as to persuade — if not always to convince — the reader of the strength of your case . |
| 15 | You should also have noticed that when you solved equations : To remove a plus number you subtract and to remove a minus number you add . |
| 16 | The ORIGINAL DRAWING section is similar in principle to a charting device in that it allows you total freedom to create a diagram of any shape that you want and to knit that shape using the yarn , stitch pattern and tension of your choice . |
| 17 | ‘ And it 's far better to get it out on the table , and to discuss it , even if you disagree than to find yourself nagging later . ’ |
| 18 | I urge you to consider very carefully before you vote and to oppose . |
| 19 | Simple hand tightening to give a permanent leak-proof seal is all that is needed to save you time and to connect brassware , like taps and mixers , when using the new Tap Connector from the Speedfit range . |
| 20 | Thus it is sufficient to know the general location of the participants in order to interpret : ( 25 ) This city is really beautiful and to know the set of potential addressees in the situation in order to interpret : ( 26 ) You can all come with me if you like and to know when the interaction is taking place in order to know which calendar year is being referred to in ( 27 ) We ca n't afford a holiday this year We could formulate the distinction thus : gestural usages require a moment by moment physical monitoring of the speech event for their interpretation , while symbolic usages make reference only to contextual coordinates available to participants antecedent to the utterance . |
| 21 | Now picture a beautiful scene in brilliant sunshine — you might choose to visualise somewhere you know or to create a perfect place in your imagination . |
| 22 | You know and to talk about many other , while they were at it with this questionnaire , they tackled many other subjects as well you know . |
| 23 | Since it is the public who report crime , and the police who decide whether to record such reports officially , crime rates and crime trends are also the products of the ‘ reactors to ’ rather than the ‘ doers of ’ crime . |
| 24 | The sales staff show these new releases to retailers who decide whether to place an order . |
| 25 | The people who decide whether to believe them or not have been able to check their own stocks quickly , to make sure no bombs or material are missing . |
| 26 | The skilled negotiator is far more likely to say things that reveal what he or she is thinking , intending and feeling than the less skilled , who reckon that to expose such things is naïve . |
| 27 | A good manager will give you the chance to say what you feel and to talk about problems . |
| 28 | In your wedding article today ( ‘ All the frills of the fair ’ ) you state that to buy a wedding dress can cost between £500 and £2,500 . |
| 29 | You choose whether to hold on to bitter emotions or to let them go . |
| 30 | The aim of the exercise is to begin to discover why you relate to written language in the way you do and to trigger the first probings into your own , unique way of understanding yourself and your world . |