Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting , he says , is ‘ the real , highest , honestest business of every son of man ’ and he advises ‘ those young persons whose stomachs are not strong , or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given to us all , an uncivilized , unchristian , or ungentlemanly affair , just skip this chapter at once , for it wo n't be to their taste ’ . |
| 2 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 3 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 4 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 5 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 6 | has happened to us several times . |
| 7 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me what has happened to you that is so peculiar . ’ |
| 9 | What has happened to you all ? ’ |
| 10 | Scrum-half Steve Bates is playing the best rugby of his life and wants to add to his one cap . |
| 11 | But , away from their partners , more than one has admitted to me that , left to his own devices , he would n't have opted for ‘ daddy ’ status , enjoyable though it may be . |
| 12 | has attached to it one or more Design Changes ( DCs ) which refer to the modules to be changed and which have been agreed by all the other module managers likely to be affected . |
| 13 | keeps saying to me new house new job new baby . |
| 14 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 15 | We are all familiar with the cliche ‘ Leaders are born and not made ’ , and whether this is true or not it does suggest to us that leadership is dependent upon an individual possessing certain characteristics . |
| 16 | It does seem to me that philosophy is much more effective when combined with some ‘ first order ’ discipline , than when taught in isolation . |
| 17 | It does seem to me that young professional cricketers should be able temperamentally to cope with the occasional excesses of the Fourth Estate . |
| 18 | It does seem to me that 's not entirely consistent to government guidance in P P G three which simply states that the structure plan would state whether or not conversions are included within the housing figures . |
| 19 | It does seem to me that criterion eleven erm is has already been covered erm by implication in items er criteria two er and probably three as well . |
| 20 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 21 | For he that is mighty hath done to me great things , and holy is his name . |
| 22 | He 's written to them numerous times and they say what money . |
| 23 | It 's happened to us all . |