Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , you must accept the weather because you will need to use it to advantage , particularly in crosswinds and on downwind holes . |
| 2 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 3 | Before we do the role plays I 'd like to discuss them to sort of , so we know exactly what we 're gon na do . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to take you to bed now , but I know it 's out of the question after all I 've said . |
| 5 | I do n't suppose you 'd like to ask him to dinner ? ’ |
| 6 | Then they 'll begin to commit themselves to capital investment . ’ |
| 7 | Since Novell 's fiscal year closed on October 31 , Univel did n't want to do anything to louse things up for Novell . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's all very well , ’ Sophie said unhappily , ‘ but we do n't want to confine ourselves to household pets , do we , Joanna ? ’ |
| 9 | He should have referred it to Management and Personnel over in Great George Street and let the Security Division sort it out . |
| 10 | GUIL : ( Jumps up savagely ) You do n't have to flog it to death ! |
| 11 | Of course while you 're on the Continent , you do n't have to restrict yourself to alcohol and tobacco . |
| 12 | ‘ Why do n't you go outside and try to talk it to death ? ’ |
| 13 | As I see it Chapman might just have made it to number ten , but I doubt it . |
| 14 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 15 | Another man would have kicked it to hell . |
| 16 | He wished he could have invited him to dinner that night . |
| 17 | High heels would have elevated it to borderline evening wear but she had n't brought heels with her so she decided on gold leather flip-flops . |
| 18 | At that time there were two or three hundred Viscounts flying in various parts of the world , and to have grounded all Viscounts because the wings had come off in flight in this accident would have contributed nothing to air safety . |
| 19 | Oh , we could have consigned it to memory if we 'd set our minds to it , but we did n't . |
| 20 | The survey vessel 's signal not only identified her , it also disarmed the platform-mounted weapons which otherwise would have reduced her to vapour . |
| 21 | You 'll have to read it to daddy after tea . |
| 22 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |
| 23 | He must have worried himself to death just because he was afraid to tell me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Of course we do n't have to invite them to dinner . |
| 25 | My editor , Sally O'Sullivan , was the first person to ask me to write anything other than my name on an Access receipt , and I would have followed her to World 's End . |
| 26 | Luke must have put her to bed . |
| 27 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 28 | He would have to get her to co operate . |
| 29 | Cos he 'd have taken them to court and said well he did n't even pay it , I did ! |
| 30 | I could have taken him to task about how he was defining ‘ agree ’ and ‘ honest ’ , but just somehow did n't . |