Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | He 'd only have wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Yet , as I argued earlier , giving up one 's identity to another who is more powerful can only mean submitting oneself to the other . |
| 5 | Yet if she voiced her objections it would only serve to alert him to how uneasy she felt . |
| 6 | How could Bob suddenly start explaining it to John , to Gareth Holmroyd , to the Editor ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | No , the Whip does not want to say something to me . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A Punjabi speaking volunteer was suggested to sit in , but this was not acceptable as the family did not want to commit themselves to a regular time for the volunteer to call . |
| 14 | The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis . |
| 15 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 16 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 17 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 18 | King George V always had strong views as to who was suitable for which office , and did not hesitate to express them to his Prime Ministers . |
| 19 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 20 | As he left , though he did not like to admit it to himself , Huy felt his sadness tempered with relief . |
| 21 | I did not plan to submit it to anyone . |
| 22 | I thought that because he had had such good news he might just like to keep it to himself today . |
| 23 | Yeah , I would just like to add something to that , and the fact that it 's not only that women , that , that men are taught that they can rape and they can abuse women , but er that it 's alright ! |
| 24 | I was now twenty metres up in the air , and I desperately hoped he would not decide to throw me to the ground . |
| 25 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 26 | But you do not have to confine yourself to just one murder . |
| 27 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |
| 28 | On the other hand Mrs Singh would lose all her social contacts in the local community once she did not have to take him to school every day . |
| 29 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 30 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |