Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , can people see it , because I do n't need to use it to any great extent , |
| 2 | Yeah , I would just like to add something to that , and the fact that it 's not only that women , that , that men are taught that they can rape and they can abuse women , but er that it 's alright ! |
| 3 | It is most definitely a thriller , but with strong romantic undertones ; I would like to recommend it to both sexes as a jolly exciting read . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I do n't want to put you to any bother . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been so kind to me that I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't want to put you to any more trouble . |
| 8 | I would n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 9 | I have always felt that on these policy study groups we must avoid restricting ourselves to those who are already fully committed politically to the Conservative Party . |
| 10 | I 'd actually prefer to send you to that than go to it myself , because I think that would be a better use of time . |
| 11 | Obviously we do n't want to expose them to more than they can take . |
| 12 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 13 | I would n't have lent myself to any schemes like that . |
| 14 | And he 'd probably have to resign himself to that situation until he returned to Winchester . |
| 15 | ‘ Or they should have sold you to some terrible household where you 'd have been treated like a dog . |
| 16 | and then I could have shown mine to this lady , cos I mean the only difference is is the black and white is n't it ? |
| 17 | I would n't wish to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 18 | You will have to accustom yourself to that , ’ she added , with a droll wrinkle of her nose . |
| 19 | Marx 's recognition of the specificity of motives under capitalism should have alerted us to this problem . |
| 20 | What need did he have to justify himself to this pampered youth ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll have to re-allocate you to another job soon , Chief Inspector , unless you can show some progress . ’ |
| 22 | While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career . |
| 23 | If she had n't reneged on her promise to go to Glenshee , Dane would never have followed her to that tiny cottage . |
| 24 | After studying the option , or take-note , Roe replied on the 19th July , from Liverpool , pointing out that only the moderate Royalty and the advanced price of copper ( this was around £80 per ton for metal ) could have reconciled him to such an " unprecedented manner of attaining a Mineral lease . " |
| 25 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 26 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 27 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 28 | It would have meant nothing to that pervert to let her stay … he had wielded the knife , the cruel swine … telling her he regretted there was nothing for her when all the time he was still hiring people … examining her through that monocle as though he was God … |
| 29 | Had he asked her to marry him , she would have sacrificed everything to that end . |
| 30 | She did not intend to commit herself to this man . |