Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I leave , my client begs me not to go . |
| 2 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 3 | Everyone wants everyone else to succeed . |
| 4 | The courts will generally be reluctant to find that a natural event breaks the chain of causation as the plaintiff has no-one else to sue if the defendant is exonerated . |
| 5 | Allen 's colleague Jeremy Bailey has produced a computer program that colour-codes the view at each wavelength and then adds them together to produce these multicolour views . |
| 6 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 7 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 8 | The cuckoo is what is known as a brood parasite — it lays its egg in the nest of a different , host , species of bird and then has nothing further to do with it . |
| 9 | ‘ Robbie has already beaten them in championship fights and owns a Lonsdale belt outright so he has nothing further to prove . |
| 10 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 11 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
| 12 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 13 | Er , she rings me up to tell me to ring her back up |
| 14 | But Ruggia has someone else to count on this season . |
| 15 | ‘ Market maker ’ is defined as including any person on a recognised exchange , whether an individual , partner , or company , who holds himself out to make a continuous succession of prices and is recognised as doing so by that exchange . |
| 16 | Do n't be a Chocolate Teapot , melting away when the heat 's turned up at school ; stand up for God and know that he loves you enough to help you through each day , however hot it gets . |
| 17 | ‘ The truth is , it tears you apart to think of me being with Marianne night after night , making love to her , holding her in my arms the way I once held you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Has she long to go ? ’ |
| 19 | Often behaving OK and getting the resultant strokes , loops back and causes you actually to feel OK . |
| 20 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 21 | In version ( ii ) , on the other hand , the word ‘ seen ’ is given the greatest prominence , and it is likely to sound as though the speaker has some reservation , or has something further to say : A : Have you seen my father yet ? |
| 22 | I think possibly it needs something just to break up this , sort of , the lines , you just got those bands of waves going across there . |
| 23 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 24 | Stone seems to think that feminist history would insist on an active campaigning role for women , and this unfortunately causes him also to dismiss the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis on the grounds that it comes with too much ‘ ideological baggage ’ ( p. 12 , n. 19 ) . |
| 25 | Greimas maps onto his diagram Propp 's basic narrative chiasmus : traitor ravishes king 's daughter and transfers her elsewhere to hide her , hero finds somewhere king 's daughter and gives her back to her parents . |
| 26 | Is this a sign of a tradition-conscious reappraisal of iconology in the town where it began , or has it more to do with the current emphasis of your Department ? |
| 27 | And where has he yet to plant it ? |
| 28 | What , in God 's name , has anyone here to celebrate ? ’ |
| 29 | There was only a scattering of snow across the wheatlands , the area which needs it most to moisten the soil for the growing season . |
| 30 | As soon as a police officer who is making inquiries of any person about an offence believes that a prosecution should be brought against him and that there is sufficient evidence for it to succeed , he should ask the person if he has anything further to say . |