Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite convinced that meeting you would dispel the fantasy , and yet at the same time did n't want that to happen at all . |
| 2 | Looking at the overall position , farmers might be forgiven for seeing little to cheer in these figures . |
| 3 | There are many such traditions , of course , and in fact the Hayward show has little to do with any of them . |
| 4 | For him the " prevailing intellectual climate " can not be relied upon to " complement and complete specialist training " ; nor can specialist training offer a " discipline " suited to developing the sense of " social responsibility " favoured by inter-war model of English studies , in its emphasis upon the past , has little to offer on those crucial " cultural " questions of quality of living , " human ends as well as means " , or on the relations between culture and economic processes . |
| 5 | If the air around the St Lawrence Ground is thick with optimism , the rise of Mark Ealham has much to do with that . |
| 6 | We believe the principles and experiences of the community development process has much to contribute to such a new model . |
| 7 | The Walthamstow jumper was outstayed over the course and distance a month ago but has less to do on this occasion . |
| 8 | I could do little to help in this experience of childbirth except to urge that the mother should be kept in her rough bed on the floor and given proper nourishment . |
| 9 | I had never consciously associated with what is called complementary medicine , and as the reader will have discovered , I have had little to do with any form of medicine . |
| 10 | in first , erm , and I 've got some fine control on the clutch and I can use that to deal with that particular corner . |
| 11 | Has n't got much to say to any of us . |
| 12 | Bristol , too , was in decline , losing some of its old trade to Southampton and Exeter , so its merchants could have had less to invest in this enterprise . |
| 13 | Since Miss Mates had intervened he had said little , although he had had enough to say before that , goodness knew , thought Sally-Anne briskly . |
| 14 | to go back , because to do this to get to this stage and find we 're not getting our audiences then , if that 's the answer we 'll just have to find the solution . |
| 15 | You keep your teeth for life and it does n't take much to work towards this goal — just follow the advice given in this leaflet . |
| 16 | There 's a history of drink , you know — he lives alone since he lost his wife , there 's a daughter , but she 's married and they do n't have much to do with each other . |
| 17 | The Cecchini Report does not have much to say on this issue , but the implication of such a policy is that monetary policies would need to be co-ordinated to prevent the growth of monetary instability . |
| 18 | I have no doubt that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science will have more to say about those matters later in the debate . |
| 19 | We do not condone the bad quality and deplorable appearance of some of the speculative building between the wars , nor the lack of physical planning and the wasteful development of land ( often good farming land ) ; we shall have more to say about this later in the chapter . |
| 20 | I shall have more to say about this in Chapter 5 . |
| 21 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter : it was to produce a quite bewildering variety of ‘ reconstructions ’ of Jesus ' personality and history , having for the most part only one thing in common — the conviction that whatever the truth about him might be , it was not the traditional Christian picture of him . |
| 22 | We shall have more to say about this later . |
| 23 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter . |
| 24 | We shall have more to say about these functions in later chapters , but will meanwhile point out that these functions and the needs they serve are interrelated : success in interpersonal communication depends in part on success in transmitting a message , which in turn depends in part on success in terms of text production . |
| 25 | We shall have more to say on such matters throughout the chapters to follow . |
| 26 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 27 | Will you have enough to do for that length of time . |
| 28 | During the read-through we 'd all be busy with our little pencils , marking out sections of dialogue , and saying at the end , ‘ Do n't you think we should change this to read like that ? |
| 29 | Hertfordshire would appear to have little to fear in that direction , for they led the Eastern Division by 16 points with two matches to play . |
| 30 | He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed us in Christ Jesus . |