Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark . |
| 2 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not saying everyone should try to be this slim , ’ she hastens to add . |
| 4 | For if there really is only one version of good primary practice then it becomes obvious that everyone should subscribe to it . |
| 5 | Everlast has made much in recent interviews of HOP 's lack of meaning — they 're just regular guys who enjoy a few bevvies and like to get laid , they do n't pretend otherwise , and no-one should come to them expecting anything else . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone ought to talk to the family connections , ’ Coffin said aloud . |
| 7 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 8 | Another famous one is where someone may come to you with a problem ostensibly to enlist your help in solving it . |
| 9 | ‘ When you two have finished , perhaps someone 'll listen to me . |
| 10 | Perhaps someone could suggest to Vinny Jones that he takes up , say , flower-arranging ? |
| 11 | I did n't ask , because I was sure that someone would speak to her by name during the meal . |
| 12 | On Martin , where I was , someone would go to the washroom which looks over the pathways to act as lookout , so hardly anyone did stay in bed once the screw had gone off . |
| 13 | She still found it hard to believe that someone would go to all that trouble just for her . |
| 14 | Someone would need to be a genius to get that pile of rust going ; you forgot to mention it was a complete and utter wreck — I 'm surprised it got you this far ! ’ |
| 15 | Erm er I 'm very grateful to Dr and I 'll offer him another story , a woman who 's now died whom I used to visit who sat with her coal fire set but not lit until someone would come to the door . |
| 16 | Better to knock and hope someone would come to her aid . |
| 17 | And from a school 's point of view , he felt that ‘ if someone will come to your doorstep to demonstrate , why should you ignore this service and travel to their doorstep ? |
| 18 | ‘ Well , someone will have to , ’ answered the cook . |
| 19 | Something , something or someone will get to it . |
| 20 | This will allow John to expand and will give him the feeling that someone will listen to him . |
| 21 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 22 | Amazing how someone can appear to be so confident and clear-headed on the outside , while — Moira is an excellent nurse , quite capable of hiding her real self when she needs to . |
| 23 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 24 | Bertha is quite right when she says that somebody must minister to the rich . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It is ridiculous that somebody should talk to a party and at the same time dictate to that party who should be heading it , ’ he said in an interview with The Independent . |
| 26 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 27 | The form of service and the choice of hymns , if any , should be your parent 's , and if she is hoping to see her husband 's coffin surrounded by flowers on its last journey , nobody should suggest to her that she should instead consider asking relatives and friends to send donations to a suitable charity , for this may upset her deeply , and if she gives in to it , it may become a burning resentment in her later on . |
| 28 | But er all of that was negated by the fact with the amount of fire and smoke that was on the platform , nobody could get to the lifeboats . |
| 29 | Nobody would want to be seen crawling to or even making sycophantic noises with Morrissey , of all people . |
| 30 | Nobody would talk to me . |