Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 2 | Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy . |
| 3 | ‘ Removing you from her vicinity is the least I can do after bringing you here to betray her . ’ |
| 4 | But after turning them over to reveal the palms , he declared : ‘ But the palms are so beautiful , the lines so clear and simple , the shape so pure . ’ |
| 5 | The next day she left for Amsterdam , earlier than expected , after asking him not to try to get in touch with her there . |
| 6 | The police finally left after advising her not to touch anything until the fingerprint team had been . |
| 7 | Typically of experienced teachers recognising the potential weakness of the whole venture ( it will in fact only succeed if the pupils are determined to make it succeed — not something one can often rely on ! ) , precautions were adopted such as warning them beforehand to mark out the route they take , and ( the final card up teacher 's sleeve as pupils start to get killed all over the place ) to come in as narrator saying , ‘ Suddenly , for no apparent reason , the danger passed and the members returned to safety ’ ! |
| 8 | ‘ I was to blame for ordering you not to harm him . |
| 9 | ‘ But it is not fair that your remorse should be turned in the direction of seeking someone else to blame . ’ |
| 10 | But the main line of attack was that Heseltine should ‘ either put up or shut up ’ — with the apparent intention of forcing him either to keep silent or to declare himself before he was ready . |
| 11 | No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted . |
| 12 | I thought , at first , of Jean Hastie and of summoning her down to deal with this . |
| 13 | He must , however , find some way of persuading her not to brag to the other members of the delegation about his suggestions . |
| 14 | Apart from that , the Empress had announced that if her husband went , she would accompany him — possibly using this as a means of persuading him not to go . |
| 15 | But , eh listen , if , do n't be frighten if there 's anything that you do n't know do n't you be frightened of asking him how to do it |
| 16 | And , you know he said I 'm sure Paddy Ashdown would think that you could of found something else to use the other |
| 17 | And er they would maybe er devise or make or r find a piece of suitable wood or something to scratch in the garden or in the sand or on a piece of nice soft soil , to make furrows and er imitate maybe what their Dad was doing out in the field and er they had no concept of doing anything else to play really , it was just pretending they were pretending they were grown up and working . |
| 18 | The conversion of tram routes to trolleybus operation continued in North and West London and London Transport set up its own team of experts to undertake the overhead wiring work , instead of letting it out to contract . |
| 19 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 20 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
| 21 | On the other hand , it can be argued that real believers are incapable of distancing themselves sufficiently to carry out an objective study of their own ( or perhaps even of someone else 's ) religion . |
| 22 | instead of putting them on to cook put them in to defrost ! |
| 23 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 24 | Several of the chapters in this book have had the aim of showing you how to deal with difficult situations and how to get what you want . |
| 25 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 26 | Robyn looked at him and flirted with the idea of telling him where to get off . |
| 27 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 28 | So you see , though I would n't dream of advising you how to arrange a bouquet , there are plenty of other areas where my experience could be of help . ’ |
| 29 | only just sort of see them occasionally to get the inside stories to . |
| 30 | For a moment Clare felt like telling him not to bother , just chuck the whole lot away . |