Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely the under-confident person may be hesitant to predict danger or to react to it with sufficient purpose or determination . |
| 2 | Ask a friend to observe your performance and to report to you on it with ruthless candour . |
| 3 | After mature deliberation your Committee venture to propose to you to entrust them with powers to digest a scheme for the medical department , to receive claims , and investigate the merits of the different candidates who may propose themselves to fill the different situations in this line , as well as of the subordinate attendants of the house , and to report to you at your next general meeting the names of such persons as to them appear most proper , for your final approbation . ’ |
| 4 | Mother needed to be reassured that it would be all right to stop putting a nappy on Susan and to talk to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in the lavatory . |
| 5 | He liked to show parties of visitors round the house and to talk to them of Oswald , or Hild , or Cosin , or Lightfoot . |
| 6 | We need biblical ways of practising the presence of God and to listen to him in the power of his Spirit . |
| 7 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 8 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 9 | ‘ If I have not lost my cunning , as you have not lost your judgment , it will never be used but to come to you with that which belongs to you . |