Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every month I learnt to do or to make something new . |
| 2 | ‘ RADA taught me about drugs and I learned to cook and to drive at the RSC , ’ she laughs . |
| 3 | I learned to share and to give and to gain my own goals . |
| 4 | On the advert that 's gone in I did wonder whether to put please respond by such and such a date ? |
| 5 | Before the event , I had debated whether to bring my director to the event , to reinforce the quality image of the Association which he in effect supports by sponsoring me . |
| 6 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 7 | I have argued that to present an analysis in this way is inappropriate . |
| 8 | I have to decide whether to put in my poems and short stories and a series of LETTERS , originally called LETTERS TO x ( some 180 very short letters written in three days in about two years ago ) rather in the writing style of the legendary DEAR ABBIE written in the 1920s ( or 30s ? you are bound to know ! ) by Dane Chandos . |
| 9 | ‘ I have to decide whether to get a goalkeeper on loan for the rest of the season in case something happens to Pears . |
| 10 | I invite Opposition Members to acknowledge the concessions that I have made and to withdraw amendments Nos. 75 and 76 . |
| 11 | And similarly of course when you want to lie or to mislead — to give someone a false belief — what you 'll say is not necessarily something you disbelieve , but rather something you believe you disbelieve . |
| 12 | Then at frequent intervals , daily if possible , meet to discuss what each of you has discovered and to review whether you are satisfied with the way you are doing things . |
| 13 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 14 | In the first instance , a simple solicitor 's letter may be sufficient to halt the work you wish to stop or to prompt action on a derelict building . |
| 15 | Caroline did n't know if she wanted to laugh or to cry . |
| 16 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 17 | When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win . |
| 18 | In this issue we ask chief executive to respond to some of the key questions you have raised and to describe what he sees happening next . |
| 19 | There must be a severe penalty to punish you for the enormity of what you have done and to deter others from wicked driving like this . |
| 20 | Once you 've decided whether you need to paint or to draw , the amount you spend depends on four main questions : |
| 21 | Many feminists , she says , read the bible to reject : ‘ My suggestion is that we re-read to understand and to appropriate . ’ |
| 22 | We prefer to generalise and to treat the three lines independently . |
| 23 | He could have stopped the trial and we had discussed whether to apply for a stay of prosecution , but once I was in the fight I wanted to carry on , whatever the consequences . ’ |
| 24 | The work of other researchers has in many different ways helped to shape our work , to influence what we have asked and to make us more sensitive to what we have heard . |
| 25 | Having reached the end of the second sentence , we have to decide whether to repeat what we have already written , or introduce something new as a contrast or relief . |
| 26 | We need to decide whether to put in a writ or what . ’ |
| 27 | It may be that work since the mid-seventies , valuable as much of it is , has in fact done no more than to clarify how much more we need to investigate and to highlight what we should always have known — that writing and the teaching of writing are immensely complex activities . |
| 28 | We need to inform and to educate our members and as Duncan said we need to get the resources down to local level . |
| 29 | This they failed to do and to end the sorry spectacle an order came that the executioner should cut his head off . |
| 30 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |