Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 2 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 3 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 4 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 5 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 6 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 7 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 8 | In practice , of course , such com- prehensiveness becomes impossible , and this provides fertile ground for opportunism or for sellers to try to over-protect themselves against risk which drives up prices . |
| 9 | No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit . |
| 10 | We can explain , correctly or incorrectly , our would-be beliefs on looking at things by reference to presentation appearances , but to try to explain them by reference to perceived-as appearances is to try to explain them by reference to themselves . |
| 11 | We can explain , correctly or incorrectly , our would-be beliefs on looking at things by reference to presentation appearances , but to try to explain them by reference to perceived-as appearances is to try to explain them by reference to themselves . |
| 12 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 13 | He even played in the club second fifteen as a prop in preference to being at lock for the first although , when the senior side was in relegation danger , he acceded to the club selectors ' request to revert to lock to help them to safety . |
| 14 | Your name ? ’ so fast that Creggan had to circle to keep him in sight , and could not keep a clear eye on the other one approaching from above . |
| 15 | Nor is there any power for them either to require details from people in order to keep a register or to require people to continue to notify them of changes in any register . |
| 16 | I can do no more here than say that I believe that they illuminate some of the processes whereby females come to wish to disassociate themselves from mathematics and other scientific and/or technical activities . |
| 17 | Dana loved luxury and she seemed to manage to surround herself with things Claudia could n't even dream of buying . |
| 18 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 19 | How much more useful if some of the country 's most distinguished writers , journalists and Shakespearean actors were to decide to involve themselves in community service by visiting schools on a regular basis . |
| 20 | Because the more you actually write the music notes Carl the better you will be able to do it when you eventually come to have to write them in exam . |
| 21 | I just told her that it might be interesting for me to get to know something of France , after all I was still young for University Entrance and could probably arrange to do some of the work here . |
| 22 | In other words , a facilitator is ultimately a person who helps the group bypass its defensive routines instead of helping them to learn to engage them in order to get rid of them . |
| 23 | In other words sex can be great fun , you do n't need to have to do it in order to just have babies . |
| 24 | I am sorry to have to disturb you at home , ma'am , but you do n't seem to be connected to the telephone system . ’ |
| 25 | I used to speak Danish , I no longer can , so I 'm going to have to address you in German — the language of my programme . |
| 26 | A lot of labour yes but that was far far better than to have to turn them by hand you know . |
| 27 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 28 | ‘ You 're going to have to explain what on earth 's been going on ! ’ |
| 29 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 30 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |