Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this might seem a basic requirement , it has resulted in a wide range of design criteria , each designed to fully respond to the environmental conditions . |
| 2 | While this weekend 's open afternoons ( 2–5pm today and tomorrow ) are aimed at spreading the word about croquet and encouraging people to join in and have fun , potential members , including families , will be welcomed whether they want to simply play for singular enjoyment or to national or international standard . |
| 3 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 4 | Several Test players have told Mirror Sport they want to publicly get behind their gutsy team-mate , but fear Big Brother is watching closely and ready to get tough if anyone steps out of line . |
| 5 | I , I mean I want to actually put in some you know some real kind of , you know , rather |
| 6 | Erm , that 's all I want to actually say in view of the . |
| 7 | We did have committees and we began to coordinate activities and er careers conventions suddenly sprouted engineering council 's banners and the people all got together again under these banners and we went to these careers conventions and tried to obviously put across the image of engineering itself . |
| 8 | I 'm very confident that if er we have er the best first class facilities and that we can actually attract er new supporters , we can attract their families and we can actually look after er children , we can look after anybody er that wants to either come to the game er with their family or friends . |
| 9 | John Power if you 'd like to stay on the line just a moment , because I 've got another gentleman who wants to actually talk about that , it 's Les erm calling from Oxford — hello Les . |
| 10 | An experienced publicist would go for a colour piece somewhere instead of the cover , but we were instructed to only go for cover pieces , so we ended up getting them of course , and we ended up creating this whole myth around him which was fabulous . |
| 11 | The period 's drama which was not seriously considered as literature until the Jacobean period ( and then only selectively ) has been critically absorbed to now belong to elite literature . |
| 12 | McCann 's speech , with its suggestion that the police lines ought to be charged , while refusing to actually call for such action , seems to have typified the confused militancy of the radicals , who were suddenly precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared . |
| 13 | Belinda Jones , ’ the owner of the name said simply , and waited while Dr Russell 's sister seemed to fully take in her presence for the first time . |
| 14 | He was thoughtful and circumspect about what others , as teachers , did ; about what he experienced and felt inside and then , as though guided by some inner light , he seemed to intuitively arrive at simple , fundamental truths . |
| 15 | Coupled with desperately needed new construction , such as the cross-rail proposals , these existing routes could be made to really work for us at a fraction of the cost of new road-building , and with minimal land encroachment , pollution or disturbance to the environment . |
| 16 | For one , the researcher did not have Roget 's on-line and needed to manually enter into the computer the relevant relations from Roget 's . |
| 17 | Because it 's been linked to so many other illnesses like heart disease and ulcers , stress is thought to indirectly account for as much as a third of all U S health-care costs . |
| 18 | Taylor 's Level progressed very slowly and was thought to still have about 20 fathoms to go . |
| 19 | Adults learning to use computers are frequently taught very basic principles ( like how to switch on the machine and " boot " a disc ) and then encouraged to simply play with it for a while . |
| 20 | Being so unused to all this , most preferred to literally stick with the ‘ wet white ’ . |
| 21 | Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process . |
| 22 | Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process . |
| 23 | They had been hurt by it and have had to seriously think about how to make themselves better . |
| 24 | You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’ |
| 25 | It may not be the bit that you 're going to eventually use for your assignment , because you 're a bit unsure taped up your assignment , but bring a short transcription , at least one side of A four , because if you do that , you will , if you 've given yourself a chance of actually trying it out , you will begin to see the problems and and the whole thing will be much more interesting and more rewardable . |
| 26 | No , somebody 's going to fucking go into their three hundred quid overdraft . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's all so ridiculous that we 're not going to even think about it any more , ’ she said firmly , hiding her fears . |
| 28 | Having created their masterpiece , they 're hardly going to just sit on it ( and spin ) — putting it into the Public Domain is a very cost-effective method of bringing their work to the attention of leading software development houses ( Ashley Routledge and David Saunders of Poseidon and St Dragon fame started out this way ) . |
| 29 | There 's no point me writing any other detail out on the to do list , because I 'm going to automatically go to that section to find out all the , all of the details . |
| 30 | I ai n't going to bloody go to work and come back and bloody sit home for thirty quid . |