Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 2 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 3 | I 've only got to do it to the end of today so , I do n't think I 'm going to use twenty do you ? |
| 4 | I 've always much preferred to sell it to friends . |
| 5 | Instead she glanced about the small chamber off the hall into which she had been ushered , thanking whatever saint had been responsible that de Raimes was apparently going to keep her to himself . |
| 6 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 7 | He 'd only have wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 8 | But if that movement were to succeed and in so doing carry him to power , he promised a systematic cruelty or slaughter as precise , impersonal and ineluctable as a quadratic equation . |
| 9 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 10 | However , a child who forms attachments from a young age with a wide group of people , rather than just close family , feels less insecure than a baby who has been close to only one or two people , so try to introduce her to as many people as possible , right from the beginning . |
| 11 | So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling . |
| 12 | Yet , as I argued earlier , giving up one 's identity to another who is more powerful can only mean submitting oneself to the other . |
| 13 | Yet if she voiced her objections it would only serve to alert him to how uneasy she felt . |
| 14 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 15 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 16 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 17 | How could Bob suddenly start explaining it to John , to Gareth Holmroyd , to the Editor ? |
| 18 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 19 | That have concluded that the differences between two democracies in South America are not great enough to warrant arming themselves to the teeth . |
| 20 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 21 | Kylie wanted to personally say thank you to all the kids who have bought her records and for it to be worthwhile you need to have kids within twenty feet of her . |
| 22 | And then if we get agreement on a salary increase then we only have to pay it to one person |
| 23 | The amateur radio enthusiast is quoted as saying he considered destroying the tape but eventually decided to hand it to The Sun . |
| 24 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 25 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 26 | Being subjected to volleys of ‘ Cheer up , grandad , it may never happen , ’ was not calculated to endear me to them . |
| 27 | I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’ |
| 28 | No , the Whip does not want to say something to me . |
| 29 | We need land at our doorstep … if Russia does not want to give it to us , she will force us to undertake an expropriation proceeding , i.e. a war , for which we have long stored up the reasons … |
| 30 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |