Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It it should n't be necessary either to adjust the microphones , to switch them on or to move them actually . |
| 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 | It takes me longer to stitch them up than to knit them and , strange as it may seem , I like turning the heels . |
| 4 | The Americans , in particular , were self-confident and well educated , and their solidarity was in stark contrast with the disunity of the United Kingdom representatives , who were attending as individuals and had no national body to back them up or to formulate a national policy . |
| 5 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 8 | There is a circularity in these arguments about the consequences of literacy that makes it difficult to test them out or to apply them fruitfully elsewhere . |
| 9 | The response was to push him off or to move away or no response at all . |
| 10 | He needed his wife 's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand . |
| 11 | And Miss P told him that if ever any man tried to mess him about or to make him do things he did n't want to do then he should come right back to The Bar and tell us , and we 'd sort the man out for him . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |