Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 2 | You 'd better invite her to lunch . ’ |
| 3 | You 'll only frighten her to death . ’ |
| 4 | It will only turn her to stone , I promise you . |
| 5 | ‘ Which does rather bring me to flaw number two . |
| 6 | They remained fearful of the opening of any loophole that would more easily expose them to fraud or abuse of the credit they had extended in good faith . |
| 7 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
| 8 | It is not , however , ideal as a general methodology for lexical semantics : it is far too cumbersome , many areas of meaning do not lend themselves to illustration in this fashion and , in any case , production only taps active competence . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , because of their omission from citation , the role of such ephemeral , non-rigorous , or incomplete data in the communication process in geology does not lend itself to citation analysis . |
| 10 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 11 | But Sheila 's situation does not lend itself to action . |
| 12 | Information on employees may exist on a company 's mini or mainframe computer but is stored in a form not usually usable or accessible by the personnel department , and mainframe information does not lend itself to interrogation on a real time basis . |
| 13 | They did not confine themselves to church attendance nor to their concern for church buildings , but endeavoured to follow Christian principles in their everyday lives . |
| 14 | She hardly knew what she was saying ; only knew that she must somehow rouse him to movement . |
| 15 | Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison . |
| 16 | I did not send them to school again for many years . |
| 17 | Is there any reason why I should not send you to prison for a very long time ’ |
| 18 | In Bateman itself the accused took part of the victim 's uterus away during childbirth and did not remove her to hospital for five days . |
| 19 | These arguments suggest that the biological and/or psychological make-up of women does not predispose them to criminality to the same extent as men . |
| 20 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 21 | ‘ I shall not take him to Court . |
| 22 | ‘ Do not take it to heart ; they say all you need do is lie with a virgin . |
| 23 | Do we not owe it to community charge payers in each of those areas to ensure that the best value is obtained for their money and that they get the most efficient service ? |
| 24 | Well this one seems to go to bed a bit later now , so she goes longer , but she 's feeding all day today , , I 'm at every couple of hours , so with a bit of luck , I 'll finally put her to bed maybe half past nine ten o'clock , she might go through till three or four , which is n't bad . |
| 25 | You will soon be well , if I do not talk you to death . |
| 26 | But these lists are not organized in any way other than regionally ; the methods of dialectology do not address themselves to variation within a single region between the sexes , or between status groups or generation cohorts . |
| 27 | That would still give us to complaint examiners , because the formula is nearly four . |
| 28 | Left alone , the place would rapidly choke itself to death , it seemed . |
| 29 | A few minutes before , he had tried to add ‘ We apologize for nothing ’ to the rules in his head , but he knew that Sara would always move him to compunction . |
| 30 | ‘ It was partly wanting to say to my children that on one day a week I could always take them to school . |