Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every month I learnt to do or to make something new . |
| 2 | ‘ RADA taught me about drugs and I learned to cook and to drive at the RSC , ’ she laughs . |
| 3 | I learned to share and to give and to gain my own goals . |
| 4 | On the advert that 's gone in I did wonder whether to put please respond by such and such a date ? |
| 5 | Before the event , I had debated whether to bring my director to the event , to reinforce the quality image of the Association which he in effect supports by sponsoring me . |
| 6 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 7 | I have argued that to present an analysis in this way is inappropriate . |
| 8 | I have to decide whether to put in my poems and short stories and a series of LETTERS , originally called LETTERS TO x ( some 180 very short letters written in three days in about two years ago ) rather in the writing style of the legendary DEAR ABBIE written in the 1920s ( or 30s ? you are bound to know ! ) by Dane Chandos . |
| 9 | ‘ I have to decide whether to get a goalkeeper on loan for the rest of the season in case something happens to Pears . |
| 10 | I invite Opposition Members to acknowledge the concessions that I have made and to withdraw amendments Nos. 75 and 76 . |
| 11 | The study examines the range of variation in employment practices and focuses particularly on the factors which appear to facilitate and to impede the adoption of arrangements designed to achieve equality of opportunity as between applicants and employees from different ethnic backgrounds . |
| 12 | ‘ But the matter is now with the Crown Prosecution Service , which has to decide whether to proceed . ’ |
| 13 | If we can not win that support , we may as well go out of business , and it is our duty now at all events to make the best of the situation which has arisen and to see that everything is done to make our Party what Disraeli called it — and what , if it is to have any existence , It must be — a really national party . |
| 14 | At every turn friendship is violated by the divisive image , an image which serves to predict and to explain . |
| 15 | Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it . |
| 16 | This favours those departments which have been successful in the past , but does not help those others which wish to expand or to improve their standards , and it fails to allow for the creation of new departments . |
| 17 | And similarly of course when you want to lie or to mislead — to give someone a false belief — what you 'll say is not necessarily something you disbelieve , but rather something you believe you disbelieve . |
| 18 | The first five minutes is to enable you to reflect on the candidate who has left and to jot down any opinions and comments which are fresh in your mind . |
| 19 | Then at frequent intervals , daily if possible , meet to discuss what each of you has discovered and to review whether you are satisfied with the way you are doing things . |
| 20 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 21 | In any event , the grant of an option to renew may depress the value of the landlord 's reversion and reduce the number of potential purchasers of it since the plans of a purchaser who wishes to redevelop or to occupy the property for the purposes of his own business may be frustrated by the exercise of the option . |
| 22 | In the first instance , a simple solicitor 's letter may be sufficient to halt the work you wish to stop or to prompt action on a derelict building . |
| 23 | How has my right hon. Friend come to judge the weight of opinion between those who wish to stay but to move forward into an area of ever better care in those hospitals against those who want a move into a future of some uncertainty ? |
| 24 | Caroline did n't know if she wanted to laugh or to cry . |
| 25 | An incompetent head is one who fails to master the task of reconciling a management plan with a financial plan , who fails to communicate and to ensure enough understanding for the financial plan with his or her teacher colleagues and who is unable to engage with governors at a level where there is both trust and understanding . |
| 26 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 27 | When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win . |
| 28 | In this issue we ask chief executive to respond to some of the key questions you have raised and to describe what he sees happening next . |
| 29 | There must be a severe penalty to punish you for the enormity of what you have done and to deter others from wicked driving like this . |
| 30 | Once you 've decided whether you need to paint or to draw , the amount you spend depends on four main questions : |