Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 2 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 3 | cos it has to go through our advertising agents . |
| 4 | Man has to go through his personal exploration and final mastery of his inferno . |
| 5 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 6 | The quality of those crosses was nt up to much most of the time — but some credit has to go to their keeper who was taking everything within 12–13 yards of his line … |
| 7 | He has to see with his own eyes that the object he takes to be a rough piece of hemp , destined to choke the life out of him , is in fact a string of priceless pearls . |
| 8 | They go on again and again and so Carson never has to sit at their feet . |
| 9 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 10 | John pauses to go into his father 's voice . |
| 11 | The exporter who has to plan for his company 's future in a climate of uncertainty about exchange rates is like the man forced to build his house on sand . |
| 12 | This man is learning slowly how deeply the experience of God 's forgiveness has to penetrate through his whole being . |
| 13 | He just , he just wants to go into my house . |
| 14 | Perhaps , the visitor suggested , he wants to go to her locker , go through her things , handle them . |
| 15 | Rosemary apparently has to cope with her husband 's anxiety that she could only be cured by becoming more ‘ assertive ’ . |
| 16 | First , it has to fall within our viewing window : we have to have the right apparatus to receive and process the information signalling the event . |
| 17 | His civil status also means he can choose whether or not he wants to work during his sentence . |
| 18 | This may be a good moment to indicate to her very gently that she has grieved well and long , and that if she is beginning to feel that her period of mourning is nearing its end ( even though you appreciate that she will always carry the scars of her sorrow ) , you are ready to give her any help she needs to adjust to her new and different life . |
| 19 | Ferruzzi , which says it wants to concentrate on its core activities of energy , agribusiness and chemicals , has also been slimming . |
| 20 | Luke , 27 , wants to concentrate on his film career and has suggested his character Dylan catches the disease from a girlfriend . |
| 21 | Its owner wants to concentrate on his other , unrelated major business retail interests in Cleveland . |
| 22 | In this case it no longer has to annihilate with its partner . |
| 23 | He argued that he has to persist with his Euro flops as he tries to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 24 | The programme is simple but certainly not easy and most of all it is individual : nobody can give recovery to anyone else , each recovering person has to work for his or her own recovery . |
| 25 | It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . |
| 26 | In The Comedians , when the once-famous comic tries to explain the healing power of humour , he has to work against his students , who keep falling back into racist , sexist jokes , jokes about cripples , jokes about anyone who is different . |
| 27 | Deciding what the board needs to know about its school and community , and then discussing with the headteacher and school staff how best to become informed . |
| 28 | You ca n't use extra national insurance contributions in one year to make up a shortfall in another ; each year has to stand on its own . |
| 29 | For example , written language typically has to express things more explicitly , because it has to stand on its own . |
| 30 | The result is that Dublin has to stand on its own constant , as well as temporary , merits . |