Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 2 | David and Angela came along to see it and David said , ‘ I must introduce you to this guy Tony DeFries who is going to be my manager , and I think you should meet him too . ’ |
| 3 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 4 | Worse , nothing in the data itself would alert us to this fact . |
| 5 | When did they bring you to this prison ? ’ |
| 6 | I am entering the RAF and then the Navy because I believe I can contribute something to this country by so doing . |
| 7 | But it 's mainly to erm present it to this committee , the trial balance sheet , She does n't quite know how to do that and altogether she feels she just wants she says , how she 's doing it now , at least she wants to check out with somebody , is she doing it how they would do it . |
| 8 | Others will follow you to this training ground , but you will form the leadership . |
| 9 | Once I speak with her , tell her the truth , she will surely not force me to this marriage . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I could take you to this Hotel Ritz you have spoken of , ’ he suggested . |
| 11 | But at the end of the discussions between the project coordinator and the client , when you have actually helped him and led along , you could have this , or you could have that , or perhaps we could just take it to this stage , cost some options out and give you a recommendation . |
| 12 | Does n't she owe it to this house and to the people before they vote on Thursday , to give a straight answer to a straight question : what precisely is she going to do about the Poll Tax ? |
| 13 | When you pay good money for a standard rose , you do n't expose it to this kind of danger for the sake of short-lived appearances . |
| 14 | You know , we can add it to this bit . |
| 15 | the combined resistance of these and then I will add it to this resistance . |
| 16 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 17 | Some phenomena may simply not lend themselves to this kind of analysis . |
| 18 | Materials with interesting sound effects would lend themselves to this kind of treatment . |
| 19 | Can they open themselves to this source of energy , this fresh spring of water , this new wine , this ‘ women spirit rising ’ , and change and be changed in the process ? |
| 20 | One can only speculate about the line the UK legislature would take , should it address itself to this problem , except that it is not too difficult to predict that the present administration would change the law so as to minimise the protections afforded to the worker . |