Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He needs someone to help him with that estate . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd like tomorrow to be the happiest day of her life , with nothing to mar it at all . |
| 3 | His numerous critics will find plenty to amuse them in this volume . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ There is nothing to suggest he in any way misused the weapons . |
| 5 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 6 | She 's always been one to surround herself with young bucks . |
| 7 | If Scotland were to have a Parliament with tax-raising powers , it could of course raise taxes that it wanted to raise , but the people of Scotland should be aware that there would then be no capping and no one to protect them from excessive expenditure decided by Strathclyde or Lothian . |
| 8 | You just need something to start you off that can then be modified as you go along . |
| 9 | Keeping a diary is vital when you live alone because there is no one to remind you of dental appointments or someone 's birthday . |
| 10 | But for one to mean anything at all ( and so , to think ) , some sentence ( picture or the like ) must serve as it stands — that is , not need an accompanying interpretation . |
| 11 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 12 | The head of the task force , hydrologist John Verhoeven , warned that " there is nothing to fight it over such a vast range . " |
| 13 | The Sola grill is different , it grills so evenly , there 's been nothing to beat it in 25 years . |
| 14 | There was nothing to raise him from this unless world events should create the opportunity for him . |
| 15 | Walking : There are far too many paths for anyone to explore them in one holiday . |
| 16 | For anyone to destroy themselves to this extent , it must be a manifestation of a profound lack of love . |
| 17 | He knew that among his people no respectable girl would expect anyone to marry her after that and that the parents would be only too glad for him to keep her . |
| 18 | She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness . |
| 19 | Finally , while it could be argued that Greeley and Rossi tell us something of catholic versus state schooling in the US , they have nothing to tell us about catholic versus Christian , multi-denominational schools , which is what most of the argument in Ireland is about . |
| 20 | On Nov. 11 Hezbollah radio , the Voice of the Oppressed , had broadcast an attack on the government policy statement , which , it claimed , contained nothing to distinguish it from previous policy statements . |
| 21 | Now she realised that if Travis got to Lori her cousin would say anything to land her in more trouble , thus playing right into Travis 's hands . |
| 22 | When a storm of rare violence blew up the mariners , being superstitious folk , cast lots to determine which of those on board was the cause of the evil , and the short straw , broken domino or queen of spades was drawn by Jonah . |