Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | You can appeal to them never to say or do things which they would be ashamed for you to know . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have not come to you before to ask for people , but we are asking for people now . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It never occurred to me not to do that in the first place , ’ she said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It never occurred to her not to believe him , or even to ask for identification . |
| 11 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 12 | The tragedy is that Pilate still rejected the Lord Jesus , although his loved one appealed to him not to do so . |
| 13 | Caspar was shouting to her not to struggle , because it would only mean she would sink quicker , but Fenella was struggling fiercely , because she could not just give in . |
| 14 | Just the questions which you 're gon na give to somebody else to mark . |
| 15 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 16 | I am writing to you now to ask if you would provide me with a list of your affiliated clubs . |
| 17 | The Chapman I knew and observed over a decade and more seemed to me never to have outgrown his background , his appetites , his ambitions or his selfishness . |
| 18 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 19 | Nor did it occur to me then to enquire how it was possible in those days for a keen Wesleyan Methodist to become a publican . |
| 20 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 21 | I 'll go further : I think it does n't even occur to you not to do it ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I vowed to myself not to do this yet , but there 's something about you that melts my sternest resolutions . ’ |
| 23 | If Fiver 's horrors had kept him above ground all night in the rain , oblivious of cold and prowling elil , then clearly it was not going to he easy to talk him out of them . |
| 24 | I quote the following from that summary , but for the sake of brevity I omit some of the references to authority and the elaboration of point ( 3 ) and the whole of point ( 4 ) , which seem to me not to assist in the present case : |
| 25 | The terms of section 40 seem to me strongly to support the conclusions reached so far . |
| 26 | At that stage I 'd have agreed to anything just to get in . |
| 27 | The stoma care nurse visited Mr Reynolds later in the day and demonstrated to him how to change the colostomy appliance . |
| 28 | So what have you got to do to it now to make it into a ninety ? |
| 29 | You are demonstrating to them how to recognize , name and communicate their feelings without going overboard . |
| 30 | ‘ I have not spoken to them yet to find out what happened . ’ |