Example sentences of "to [pron] we [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | Because we 're so used to them we may have relaxed our guard . |
| 3 | To them we should respond with greater fervour . |
| 4 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 5 | Say , everybody was saying to me we could break in there . |
| 6 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 7 | And we protested , writing letters to everyone we could think of . |
| 8 | One powerful source of fresh blood came from new men to whom we shall return , the Sussex ironmasters , like the Bowyers of Cuckfield who disputed so effectively with Bishop Curteys . |
| 9 | Something ancient is surfacing here , in other words , and it is tempting to believe that some French critics , especially those who are hostile to the English a cappella tradition ( to whom we shall return ) , can hear in English choral recordings the voice of their ancient Protestant adversary all too clearly . |
| 10 | Now , he thought , there is none to whom we may entrust a message . |
| 11 | The organists of the ‘ Imperial ’ group ( see pp. 180 and 183–5 ) , to whom we may add Buchner 's pupil , the St. Gall organist Fridolin Sicher ( 1490–1546 ) , were still active through much of this period . |
| 12 | The only person to whom we can give any credence is Manningham ; doubtless any delay in embalming the body was caused by Cecil 's dilemma whether to obey the late Queen 's wishes or not . |
| 13 | We do not have great writers any more , men to whom we can turn for enlightenment and discussion of the most engaging problems . |
| 14 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 15 | It is the younger age range to whom we must make ourselves more attractive and appealing . |
| 16 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 17 | Could you please let me know where you would like the cheque sent , and to whom we should make it out ? |
| 18 | we are trying to identify the appropriate person in their organisation to whom we should write concerning a business opportunity which may be of interest to them . |
| 19 | Is it not Lord Lane to whom we should direct our innermost yearnings ? |
| 20 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
| 21 | Once established they underwent a number of evolutionary ‘ bursts ’ in which diverse kinds of reptiles occupied a variety of habitats , the most spectacular of which was the dinosaur radiation in the Mesozoic , to which we shall return later . |
| 22 | They will remain fundamental to our concern , and a basic issue to which we shall return at the end . |
| 23 | Daraprim ( pyrimethamine ) , a very different substance , evolved some years later from research of more general significance , to which we shall return in the next chapter . |
| 24 | This is an important idea to which we shall return . |
| 25 | These depredations and the lack of a firm response by corrupt local magnates were to have a violent sequel to which we shall return . |
| 26 | When Curteys hit at Lewkenor 's and his associates ' involvement in corn speculation he acted in the tradition to which we shall return , of the magnate 's dispensing reasonable justice , but it was a politically fatal manoeuvre . |
| 27 | Apart from political intervention and law-giving , to which we shall return , a steadily more onerous pressure emerged in the form of military service . |
| 28 | Finally in this short resumé of the teachers ' predicament , we should mention the more personal factors to which we shall return later in the book : their aspirations , ambitions , values and concerns . |
| 29 | The responsibilities of magisterium remain an issue to which we shall return . |
| 30 | In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later . |