Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] and [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the plaintiffs , a firm of estate agents , were employed by the defendants to find for them and to negotiate a lease of office and shop accommodation . |
| 2 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 3 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 4 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) Although she was under the influence of the painkilling pethidine , she had not lost her mental faculties and she was sufficiently alert , though tired , to be able to understand the questions asked of her and to answer them comprehensively and comprehendingly . |
| 6 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 7 | I urged her to listen to me and to feel what I was feeling . |
| 8 | As far as I 'm concerned , I would ignore that er I 'm perfectly prepared to talk to anybody who wants to talk to me and to explain why , certainly in West Oxfordshire , the problems are caused by an over-spending Labour/S L D County Council that accounts for 90% of the . |
| 9 | It is perfectly in order to pause before answering a question so that you can be totally sure you have understood what has been said to you and to give some thought to your answer . |
| 10 | Complicated tasks face social service departments in trying to meet the claims for service made on them and to offer constructive assistance within statutory responsibilities and resource constraints . |
| 11 | ( The five Central Asian republics — Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Kirgizia , Tadjikistan and Turkmenia — reached a further agreement on Aug. 14 to set up direct trading links between them and to reduce their dependence on central economic planning . |
| 12 | We ask that person to look after them and to show them the ropes . |
| 13 | It is also important to find a hypnotherapist who is prepared to be frank and open with you and to answer all your questions . |
| 14 | Disenchantement with the policy of that union led him to resign from it and to join another union , Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff ( ‘ A.P.E.X . ’ ) |
| 15 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 16 | ‘ The man I 'm going to send you to see will help you to understand it , to cope with it and to get over it . |
| 17 | Such " regular casuals " can remain " regular casuals " only if they are prepared to accept the schedules set for them and to take their free days when there are no events and their holidays during the off-season . |
| 18 | It was well known that the foreman and the shop steward in question were always in dispute , and it appeared to the majority that the foreman had , in fact , set him up to get rid of him and to settle an old account . |
| 19 | In supporting a transition to adulthood , how does youth training differentiate between groups of young people ? for some young Black trainees , disproportionately represented in workshop-based schemes , the programmes serve to shape them into acceptable employees within a market which discriminates against them and to ease them gently out of their aspirations into the reality of restricted choice ( Corbett 1990 ) . |
| 20 | The vital thing is to know what you are getting into before you get into it and to make sure that , even with the slow payment , it is still a good deal and that you will have enough cash to survive until you are paid . |
| 21 | To deal with it and to prevent its persistent effects on children , doctors and nurses need more training to develop their psychological awareness and their counselling skills . |
| 22 | Then words , distant and unknown to him , began to form in him and to speak through him , and a name loomed before him as if he could feel the place it represented ; and the name was Callanish . |
| 23 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 24 | Young bands have to find their own team ( agent , manager , publicist and others ) to put around them and to believe in their music . |
| 25 | It would therefore have followed civilized custom if the government of the United States had sought both to relieve the burden of the disaster on all those affected by it and to pursue and punish those responsible . |
| 26 | I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual . |
| 27 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 28 | It existed to ‘ speak for artists and art organisations , to offer them advice , to argue for them and to champion their interests in the media and to government whenever and wherever the need may arise ’ . |
| 29 | And when father came and took mother for his wife , to live with her and to take care of her , the little egg began to grow and grow into a real little baby . |
| 30 | Although families and friends urge them to turn to him and to respond to him , and to receive him . |