Example sentences of "to [pron] [be] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My advice to you is not to waste your time reading that one , ’ he said rudely . |
| 2 | And and things settled nice and quietly and all the blue lights come flying down here , and so we had to they was about to chop down this blokes door and we said , Whoa whoa whoa . |
| 3 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 4 | Up went Solly , up the steep rock above which a proliferation of good holds give a misleading impression as to what is yet to come . |
| 5 | It was the tragic irony of Fate that , because of the terms of reference to which de Castelnau had committed him in advance , this uniquely humanitarian general would be called upon to subject the men under his command to what was shortly to become the most inhuman conflict of the whole war . |