Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The benefit now is that a child can institute proceedings without having to wait for somebody else to do it , ' said Mr Kidd . |
| 2 | Well , I reckon so , so I I 've arranged for someone else to do it now . |
| 3 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 4 | Let's hope he or she cares about you enough to say , ‘ You know you should have called me earlier-you must have been holding this in for days ! ’ |
| 5 | It was disconcerting for visitors to primary schools to see teachers , who had declined to teach their pupils the multiplication tables , hoping to get them to discover for themselves how to count up books , conveniently arranged round the room in groups of four . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps the time has come for someone else to take on the burden . |
| 7 | So I 'll probably use those three groups until they 've got enough business and then they 'll , they 'll retract the rate , and I 'll wait for somebody else to come along . |
| 8 | Suppose Betty had come with her not to gambol on the blades of grass , not to ask her collaboration in salad-making but to keep an eye on her . |
| 9 | She foraged in it immediately to see if her young supporter had been able to smuggle through a twist of tobacco . |
| 10 | you focussed on yourself enough to cry |
| 11 | Perhaps he had believed he was to go with the main reconnaissance party , and having written his last letter did not like to write to me again to cause me what he thought would be further confusion and anxiety . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified description which appear to him so to relate ; and — ( a ) if any such documents are produced , the Director may — ( i ) take copies or extracts from them ; ( ii ) require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them ; ( b ) if any such documents are not produced , the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state , to the best of his knowledge and belief , where they are . |
| 13 | You can appeal to them never to say or do things which they would be ashamed for you to know . ’ |
| 14 | It was almost at this moment , too , that the door was thrust open and the indignant lady stood within it and in a loud voice proclaimed in her most officious manner : ‘ When you have come to yourself enough to apologise , Peggy , I 'll see you upstairs in my room . |
| 15 | We have not come to you before to ask for people , but we are asking for people now . |
| 16 | I felt this book cries for action ; it has helped me understand that to give an honest testimony of my feelings , I had to impose on myself not to betray my dignity as a woman and as a member of a community . |
| 17 | Page , as it is always known , remains enthralled by the country , returning to it frequently to photograph and document the Vietnamese struggle to return to normality . |
| 18 | ‘ It never occurred to me not to do that in the first place , ’ she said . |
| 19 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |
| 20 | She was n't sure if he would come , but it never occurred to her not to go to the rock where they had met before . |
| 21 | It never occurred to her not to believe him , or even to ask for identification . |
| 22 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 23 | He stopped , realizing what he was doing , and looked at her carefully to see if she had taken it in . |
| 24 | The thought crossed her mind that perhaps they were burying her , and she silently shouted at herself not to think that , even though it was the most natural supposition she could make . |
| 25 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 26 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 27 | Marie could think of nothing else to say . |
| 28 | She could think of nothing else to say . |
| 29 | She must think of something else to do . |
| 30 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |