Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with a list price of around £1,500 , it may be a tad too expensive if you 're just looking for a reliable workhorse. 300dpi printers are good enough for churning out letters , reports and the odd graphic , and do a lot less damage to your wallet . |
| 2 | She paused , looking at him reflectively , and then asked : ‘ Do n't you think you had better speak to your father about all this ? ’ |
| 3 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 4 | I said Well I 'm sorry you 'd better refer to my solicitor who 's told me that you need a court order . |
| 5 | Spending time with McIllvanney was not my idea of relaxation , and I did n't much take to his lack of enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Erm it 's a common mistake and people think Do n't need to make a will it 'll all go to me wife . |
| 7 | In a cloak and dagger operation , he got in touch and insisted he could only come to her shop when there would be no other customers around . |
| 8 | Cut it out and bring it along , and I think it will all add to our discussion of healthy eating . |
| 9 | A new baby would only add to her workload . |
| 10 | ‘ The latest events you describe can only add to her unhappiness . |
| 11 | Luke 's age would only add to his glamour . |
| 12 | Please do not take it as an example that you may all leap to your feed to make your bids . |
| 13 | Perhaps you 'd better talk to our Matron , Miss Vinall . |
| 14 | Yeah , she ca n't obviously talk to her husband about it because George is her ex-husband and he |
| 15 | The fact that our conceptual scheme is inseparable from the idea of such particulars , he might argue , does not testify to their existence per se . |
| 16 | The problem is that the mother does not relate to her child . |
| 17 | And if certain areas of life and behaviour are deemed suitable for morality , but not law , this suggests a view that law has internal limitations which do not relate to its pedigree . |
| 18 | Although these allegations , if made good , clearly amount to wrongdoing on the part of the third defendant in relation to a number of individual matters , they do not convey to my mind a particularly comprehensible account of a conspiracy or of systematically fraudulent conduct . |
| 19 | ‘ He is eccentric , should that not appeal to your race ? |
| 20 | Dr Neil picked her up immediately , saying , ‘ And your papa , McAllister — he did not object to your mama working ? |
| 21 | Both Mr. Workman and Miss Davies deposed to the fact that Mr. Whitehead , Mr. Bell 's solicitor , accepted that the matter could properly be adjourned until Monday , 19 February and that Mr. Whitehead did not object to his client being remanded in custody until that date . |
| 22 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 23 | The dividing line between altruistic and selfish ends is often thin , but any person who considers the aim of a fast to be selfish should not yield to its pressure , even though the person engaged in the fast might die as a result . |
| 24 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 25 | She did not refer to her anguish ; nor did she to mine , but she bent all her energies towards distracting me , insofar as that was possible . |
| 26 | It is significant , for example , that Nizan does not refer to his literature as " socialist realist " , but rather as " revolutionary " . |
| 27 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 28 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 29 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 30 | I do n't know what maggot has got into her head , but I will not dance to her piping , any more than you . |