Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 2 | The observer has to submit himself to the way things are . |
| 3 | He wants to do something to the camp . |
| 4 | But he wants to do something to the camp . |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah I hate people who park on the ramp and causes to put yourself to a hill start , they are a |
| 6 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 7 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 8 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 9 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 10 | Until the American and French Revolutions Bentham and other utilitarians hoped that they could persuade apparently enlightened rulers or despots to commit themselves to the self-evidently admirable aim of increasing the sum and the spread of human well-being . |
| 11 | The Labour Party must continue to reject the tax on the low paid , the young , the elderly , and needs to commit itself to a restoration of the Wages Councils , an increase in the power of the Wages Councils , and an improvement in the Wages Inspectorate , to ensure that all employers who break the minimum wages legislation be detected and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law . |
| 12 | He told reporters he was overwhelmed by the unexpected prize and said he plans to donate it to the Prison Fellowship . |
| 13 | 3 ) In the instruction manual for the BOSS ME-5 it says to take it to a recognised dealer to get the back-up memory battery replaced . |
| 14 | Just as surely God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship , so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great general disillusionment with others , with Christians in general , and , if we are fortunate , with ourselves . |
| 15 | Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top . |
| 16 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 17 | If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination . |
| 18 | The row centres on subsidies to French farmers — whose votes are vital if Delors hopes to make it to the French Presidency . |
| 19 | Faith is thoroughly existential , but the moment-by-moment experience is never autonomous , nor is it awash in time , for memory serves to link it to the past . |
| 20 | The servant wishes to say something to the Master . |
| 21 | In Dr S 's view , the discourse of the emotional is devalued in the rest of the department , and she tries to bring it to the fore . |
| 22 | By rejecting the decreets of the Lennox court , the bailie-depute forced the litigants to incur the charges of an action in the Court of Session , or , alternatively , as Sproull was said to expect , ‘ by this means to bring them to a composition ’ . |
| 23 | If she wishes to attach herself to the scare , I am delighted . |
| 24 | ‘ Sounds fine , but , well , even if Montgomery manages to raise this bomber , if he manages to cut a hole in the fuselage without blowing us all to kingdom come , if he manages to extract the atom bomb and if he manages to secure it to the Angelina 's cradle , what happens if the thing detonates before he reaches the Kásos Strait ? ’ |