Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trundled in , promising that they would do nothing to distress or intimidate poor little Miss Harker . |
| 2 | Erm I only want to say it is very important that we must do nothing to sort of prejudice the outcome of the consideration of the planning application environment cases sub committee , erm at a later erm stage . |
| 3 | The next day she said , ‘ I could n't give one to daddy because there were n't enough . |
| 4 | A preacher can talk till he is blue in the face , but he can never bring anyone to faith in Christ . |
| 5 | I know you only have to work so many Saturdays but because it 's sort of Christmas do they like everybody to work ? |
| 6 | The resulting chronology should then enable one to date particular instruments according to the presence of certain features . |
| 7 | The dates of composition of both Hocazade 's and Ali Tusi 's works on the seem to be unknown , and there does not appear to be any evidence which would enable one to date the foundation of Mehmed II's addition to the Uc Serefeli medrese . |
| 8 | So I did the CD , put it out and thought , ‘ Hey , if it sells a couple of thousand , I 'll be smiling all the way , ’ because I just did it so I could have something to hand people . |
| 9 | Although before the Courts Act 1971 in theory it could be claimed that government was ultimately responsible for the running of the courts , in practice responsibility was so diffused between local authorities , the High Sheriffs and Under Sheriffs of counties , and the judiciary , that there was no real way in which Parliament could call anyone to account . |
| 10 | As landlords ' solicitors become ever wary that they should leave nothing to chance , the number of individual tenant 's covenants appear to be increasing with heavyweight commercial leases quite often having comfortably in excess of 30 covenants and not far short of 50 . |
| 11 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 12 | Her hopes that he might leave something to chance and throw her the opportunity to make her own way back faded as she saw him lock up and pocket the key . |
| 13 | Only in a few cosmetic details did it owe anything to French or other West European influences . |
| 14 | To actually get someone to prison is exceptionally hard . |
| 15 | If I send one to grandma , one to you and Amy , and then I 'll write one to grandma Lincolnshire , but I 'll wo n't send it off , it 'll be to expensive wo n't it ? |
| 16 | How can words stir anyone to action or even reflection if the accompanying music fails to quicken the pulse ? |
| 17 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary , and now they can be wholly in charge of this — they can change the layout of it as much as the words within it ; they can ask colleagues to come in and comment and even add a little bit . |
| 18 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary — and now they can be wholly in charge of this . |
| 19 | Maybe I can find someone to apprentice me . |
| 20 | If you are interested in fine eighteenth-century furniture , in hooked rugs or in quilting , in mushroom arm-chairs or in Duncan Phyfe , in Shakers or in the West , in cracker barrels or in ‘ Borning Rooms ’ , you will find something to interest you at the American Museum in Britain . |
| 21 | I wo n't say anything to Penumbra no matter what happens . |