Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 32 | ‘ If I could totally devote myself to tennis maybe that would help and I 'd be more into my tennis , but I 'm not that way . |
| 33 | This will also entitle you to book in advance and take part in ant activities you can play individually , at an additional charge per session , enrol in a coaching group or join one of our many resident clubs . |
| 34 | That 's what they 'll say and they 'll probably send me to prison . ’ |
| 35 | A pet problem could also force you to fork out . |
| 36 | Suppose she thought she could probably get them to school , but ca n't bring them home . |
| 37 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
| 38 | That leaves obvious questions about why exactly this illuminates decisions by finite human agents in worlds full of ‘ friction ’ , but we would rather leave them to Chapter 6 , where Game Theory will be found illuminating for thinking about international relations in an ideal-typical way . |
| 39 | It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser . |
| 40 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 41 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 42 | I do n't want her to shit on your head . |
| 43 | Well , yeah , but I do n't want you to sort of like |
| 44 | I hope you do n't expect me to foot it . |
| 45 | I 'll be happy for you as long as you do n't expect me to father it . |
| 46 | yeah recruiting , dog shitting on their street etc etc etc that we do our best to deal with in the yer know time honoured tradition of a policeman and a and we 're police officer sorry , sorry Trace , er and er we just you know I think it 's more a P R O thing than er anybody , but I do n't expect you to man it , I do n't expect Jenny or Ann or or Jane to man it |
| 47 | They ca n't send him to college . |
| 48 | They wo n't send them to home addresses free ? |
| 49 | ‘ You 're lucky I did n't beat him to death ! ’ he bit out , the car screeching round the mountain road in hot sunlight . |
| 50 | The next day she said , ‘ I could n't give one to daddy because there were n't enough . |
| 51 | I do n't give it to Miss ! |
| 52 | She turned to him and smiled coolly : " You would n't like me to size you up , would you ? " |
| 53 | I would n't like you to sort of er |
| 54 | ‘ I did n't plan what to shot , if something struck me as beautiful or aesthetically striking I would snap it . |
| 55 | I Could n't decide which to card to go , oh yeah that 's it . |
| 56 | ‘ You mind she does n't shag you to death , ’ one of them said . |
| 57 | To look at them and see their incomprehension does surely move us to sadness ; for we aspire to Thoreau 's Great City of the West , but these men are blind . |
| 58 | ‘ Do n't invite them to dinner Stephen ’ said Christina when he caught up with her . |
| 59 | We have erm , we ca n't put operator performance any more on our district , because we 've just erm , stopped that , it does n't , you know , they do n't apply it to performance any more as far as that goes , but erm , I have got three representation , three representatives , which the checkout people nominated themselves and I have a monthly meeting with those to come up with any problems but it 's still , you know , that 's tackling one issue . |
| 60 | Do n't take me to bed then make me wait . |