Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing especially to look out for ? ’ |
| 2 | Now if you wanted to sleep with someone just to find out about it , I can understand that , but surely you are … beyond that stage ? ’ |
| 3 | Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us . |
| 4 | The secret of good management is , never put off until tomorrow what you can get someone else to do today , especially if you want it done yesterday . |
| 5 | I am unrepentant ; perhaps it will encourage someone else to do better . |
| 6 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 7 | He ran the trolley down to the corridor 's end and left it there for someone else to pick up and use , and then he doubled back and started to walk the distance to the locker room . |
| 8 | You are seeking ideas whenever you invite someone else to put forward an idea about a possible course of action . |
| 9 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 10 | and we could maybe find someone else to go off and do it with |
| 11 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 12 | It 's always easier for someone else to see where you 've missed the point . |
| 13 | confidentiality is crucial and it would be wrong to expect someone else to take over |
| 14 | I have some wonderful memories which I will always cherish but it is time for someone else to take over . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps the time has come for someone else to take on the burden . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ If a player flicks up the ball and tries to head it to his goalkeeper , or flicks it up for someone else to knock back , he 'll be booked for ungentlemanly conduct . ’ |
| 17 | We will send someone else to clear out the site . ’ |
| 18 | The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) . |
| 19 | You might mean well , but find someone else to experiment on ! ’ |
| 20 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 21 | Certainly the worst way to come to terms happily with being alone is to struggle constantly against it , always waiting for someone else to come along and take away our loneliness . |
| 22 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 23 | There always seemed to be someone else to hand over to . |
| 24 | This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over . |
| 25 | all sorts of terrible stresses and the only sort of legitimate reason for collapsing is to allow somebody else to cope beautifully with your collapse . |
| 26 | It 'll also if we start to take action provoke somebody else to take over the schemes , |
| 27 | down and , and may well be just one person requiring and you 've got somebody else to go down |
| 28 | And with that he wanders off , to find somebody else to wind up . |
| 29 | I found it very difficult for the first few hours , but after watching the robots and using my skill at cheating I was able to watch somebody else to find out how to complete each screen , of which there are lots . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I feel myself that there are people out there who have information but are waiting for somebody else to come forward . |