Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection . |
| 2 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 3 | Even though no two people speak or write in just the same way , groups of people share sufficient language characteristics ( of accent , vocabulary and grammar ) to bind them together and to distinguish them from other groups . |
| 4 | In fact , the glances they managed to exchange , glances which played on a wide keyboard of reactions , served both to spin them together and to show each other off . |
| 5 | ‘ I want you to withdraw all your people from the streets , to send them home and to tell them to stay at home , until at least after the Moulid . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to withdraw all your people from the streets , to send them home and to tell them to stay at home . |
| 7 | It is possibly the spaciousness of design that brings audiences again and again to Ashton 's Symphonic Variations and Monotones , whose straighter and continuously moving lines require the dancers to draw them calmly and to fill the stage generously with movement . |
| 8 | There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular antenatal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child . |
| 9 | There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular ante-natal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child . |
| 10 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 11 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 12 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 13 | Usually , problems that coincide with retirement can be fairly simply overcome by willingness to discuss them frankly and to work out a solution that suits both partners . |
| 14 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 15 | She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts . |
| 16 | Forewarned by the matron to treat her normally and to ignore anything eccentric that she did or said , the two sisters immediately wrapped Elinor in an invisible cloud of affection . |
| 17 | He needed his wife 's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand . |
| 18 | What right had I to bring him here and to inflict this sort of suffering on him ? |
| 19 | A short-term goal aimed at improving her relationship with him was set and she was encouraged to talk to him regularly and to discuss his father 's condition . |
| 20 | It was good to see him there and to have three British sprinters in a European final . |
| 21 | That being the case , I have accepted my father 's invitation to live with him again and to return to the stage under his direction . |
| 22 | mm , just I just rub it down and to keep it moving another salt for a week or two in it , the icy roads , bound to put salt down are n't they ? |
| 23 | It 's not like that it 's just that I think it 'll help you to write it down and to think about it and to talk , talk to Kelly about it . |
| 24 | To explain something is not to explain it away and to understand something is not to underestimate its value . |
| 25 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 26 | If a mistake is made , it is best policy to admit it quickly and to work with the client and one 's colleagues to resolve it as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Erm , if there 's something needs doing extra you just ask the person who 's best for the job to sort it out and to do it for you . |
| 28 | These statutory provisions ensure that the publication in question is judged by its impact on its primary audience — those people who , the evidence suggests , would be likely to seek it out and to pay the asking-price to read it . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State will understand why there is reluctance to change a system that has served us well and to reduce the frequency of inspections from once every year to once every four years . |