Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) . |
| 2 | While the majority of guests are British , there are Belgians and Dutch whom you will enjoy getting to know over lunch or dinner . |
| 3 | Answer guide : Some of the additional information you would need relates to cost by product , potential sales volume by product , price elasticity of demand , competitor prices etc . |
| 4 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
| 5 | The legislation also recognizes that some clergy and others may feel bound to resign from ministry or employment with the Church in those circumstances and aims to mitigate the financial hardship they may suffer . |
| 6 | Which I would like to aim to complete by lunchtime so we can resume afresh on the others at five thirty . |
| 7 | Fewer people were coming forward to take jobs because they did n't like having to go to school . |
| 8 | Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate . |
| 9 | Paula , who was zipping one of the other models into a cocktail dress , felt her skin begin to prick with excitement . |
| 10 | ‘ Now my parents realise they may have to go to help with identification . |
| 11 | How many metres do I have to walk to get to school ? |
| 12 | Lunch consisted of bread and cheese , neither of which Charlie would have dared to offer for sale to Mrs Smelley . |
| 13 | When Spiro Agnew had been forced to resign in 1973 , President Nixon would have preferred to appoint as vice-president the renegade Democrat , John Connally . |
| 14 | And there was virtually no sign of people paying cash when they would really have preferred to buy on credit . |
| 15 | I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place . |
| 16 | When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et toro , you would have had to appear by counsel before the House of Lords for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii . |
| 17 | I should have had to admit to fatigue . |
| 18 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 19 | It may have refused to take into account something which it was required to take into account . |
| 20 | It may have refused to take into account something it was required to take into account or conversely it may have based its decision on something it was not entitled to take into account and so on … " |
| 21 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 22 | No Englishman could now have presented himself in Vienna without attracting the attention of the Grand Army , and with his accent he could not have hoped to pass for Austrian . |
| 23 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 24 | On a final afternoon in which lesser mortals might have wanted to run for cover the European team fought on even though at times its causes seemed hopeless . |
| 25 | Hepworth villagers may have continued to congregate about midsummer at some traditional place of worship . |
| 26 | DEC/Fujitsu discussions are now rumoured as ‘ over ’ — Fujitsu is not dumping Sparc , but would have loved to go to Alpha instead — two to three years ago . |
| 27 | She would have liked to fall in love with him . |
| 28 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 29 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 30 | For example 1 might have chosen to go by ship to New York . |