Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than let their cottages become occupied by potential sitting tenants , some farmers may prefer to let them to anyone but their own employees . |
| 2 | They may prefer to believe themselves to be special and different in their primary addictions rather than part of a wider group of sufferers from addictive disease . |
| 3 | Now you may want to leave everything to your surviving spouse and then on to the children , that 's natural . |
| 4 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 5 | As you will appreciate , we will be collecting feedback on any research you carry out within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with the tape , we ought to try to supply it to you as soon as possible . |
| 6 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |
| 7 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | People living here must prefer keeping themselves to themselves . ’ |
| 9 | All right , I 'll put a sling on that arm , and if the pain gets worse you must promise to take yourself to the hospital . ’ |
| 10 | I should like to present you to my mother and great-aunts . |
| 11 | When I get them , I should like to send them to you to copy ’ . ) |
| 12 | I must remember to take one to , there the one 's are n't they ? |
| 13 | You can bring notes with you for the talk but you should avoid reading them to your audience . |
| 14 | I have always felt that on these policy study groups we must avoid restricting ourselves to those who are already fully committed politically to the Conservative Party . |
| 15 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 16 | And I should have kept it to myself . |
| 17 | He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out . |
| 18 | Before I go to sleep I wonder about whether I should have said anything to him about Mr Archer and his phone calls and Ares . |
| 19 | Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases . |
| 20 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 21 | Marx 's recognition of the specificity of motives under capitalism should have alerted us to this problem . |
| 22 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 23 | Squaring her shoulders , she said tersely , ‘ I really do n't see why I should have to explain myself to you . |
| 24 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 25 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 26 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 27 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 28 | Should have told him to his face . |
| 29 | You should have dedicated yourself to bringing up your child … . ’ |
| 30 | it , they should have reported it to you ! |