Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the simplest method of disconnecting the pipes is to saw through them or to cut through them with a pipe cutter . |
| 2 | In this case the plaintiffs , a firm of estate agents , were employed by the defendants to find for them and to negotiate a lease of office and shop accommodation . |
| 3 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 4 | The most striking feature of the revolution of 1326–7 is the unwillingness of anyone apart from Edward 's immediate circle of friends to stand by him or to fight for him . |
| 5 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 6 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 7 | I urged her to listen to me and to feel what I was feeling . |
| 8 | It 's easy here , Hilary , Monica and Yvonne are more like your mates than your mum , it 's easier to talk to them than to talk to my mum . |
| 9 | As far as I 'm concerned , I would ignore that er I 'm perfectly prepared to talk to anybody who wants to talk to me and to explain why , certainly in West Oxfordshire , the problems are caused by an over-spending Labour/S L D County Council that accounts for 90% of the . |
| 10 | She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever . |
| 11 | To those humans who , given mastery of space , preferred to vault across it than to linger in orbit and build there , Mars and its hurtling moons had been the first great benefit of the gift . |
| 12 | We ask that person to look after them and to show them the ropes . |
| 13 | He came one day softly to see Cley , to discuss with him whether to ban , as it was in his power to do , a new play entitled Forgotten Robe , Abyss , Glitter . |
| 14 | ( d ) The supplier must have failed within a reasonable time of the request , to comply with it or to identify the person who supplied him with the product ( s. 2(3) ( c ) ) . |
| 15 | Disenchantement with the policy of that union led him to resign from it and to join another union , Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff ( ‘ A.P.E.X . ’ ) |
| 16 | But would n't it have been a good idea to ask a relative or neighbour to go with her or to look after the children who were not going to receive attention ? |
| 17 | ‘ The man I 'm going to send you to see will help you to understand it , to cope with it and to get over it . |
| 18 | Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well . |
| 19 | To deal with it and to prevent its persistent effects on children , doctors and nurses need more training to develop their psychological awareness and their counselling skills . |
| 20 | Then words , distant and unknown to him , began to form in him and to speak through him , and a name loomed before him as if he could feel the place it represented ; and the name was Callanish . |
| 21 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 22 | Young bands have to find their own team ( agent , manager , publicist and others ) to put around them and to believe in their music . |
| 23 | The Holy Spirit is God 's gift to us , and he means us not just to read about him but to make use of him . |
| 24 | I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual . |
| 25 | If it is left as an optional extra , it 's too easy to forget about it or to decide not to bother . |
| 26 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 27 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 28 | It existed to ‘ speak for artists and art organisations , to offer them advice , to argue for them and to champion their interests in the media and to government whenever and wherever the need may arise ’ . |
| 29 | I want the United Kingdom to live at peace with all its European neighbours — to trade and to co-operate with them but to retain control of its defences and of its foreign and economic policies . |
| 30 | And when father came and took mother for his wife , to live with her and to take care of her , the little egg began to grow and grow into a real little baby . |