Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think anything will ever change that so it 's very stupid of me even to hope … to live in the hope that he … that it 'll ever be different . |
| 2 | Now that I 'm feeling a bit calmer , I can see that it was amazingly presumptuous of me even to imagine that Madeleine might love me enough to sacrifice all the luxuries she 's used to , just to be with me ! |
| 3 | That way it made his rejection of me easier to bear . |
| 4 | Marie could think of nothing else to say . |
| 5 | She could think of nothing else to say . |
| 6 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 7 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 8 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
| 9 | Thousands of foreigners from all parts of the world were so concerned about events in Spain that they actually went there to fight in the war , many of them never to return . |
| 10 | The rest of them still to go . |
| 11 | She 's had two or three of them home to stay and things . |
| 12 | ‘ Is this decision of yours just to try and thwart me , or do you have any particular reason ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Is this Hugh of yours likely to visit ? ’ |
| 14 | Men , men , mentioned here by our friend , that Leicestershire has got no business to discuss about fox hunting , we are not elusive , there are other county councils who have banned fox hunting on their land , so do not make this as a sacrosanct and or something that Leicestershire are doing , they are not doing first , there are so many other county councils in this country and for your information , I was listening to radio four few days ago , even in Pakistan , a third world country , is banning hunting in their country , we should be ashamed of ourselves here to discuss , I agree with Councillor when the discussion start and he said move for the ward , because the logical thing was to move for the wards rather than discuss , if we all believe that this is horrible , acrimonious and abhorrent in today 's day and age , as the slavery was abhorred two hundred years ago . |
| 15 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 16 | Somehow she felt certain that he would always be far too sure of himself even to consider the possibility . |
| 17 | Second , there are issues about the choice of which home to enter , the locality of the home and how long to stay once care is entered . |
| 18 | And and then I 'd like both of you separately to say which bits you 'd like to go over again and which bits you 'd like us to spend more time doing more and more examples of . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 20 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 21 | ‘ They always show the most violent aspects of everything so's to make money . ’ |
| 22 | She must think of something else to do . |
| 23 | George took his for want of something else to do . |
| 24 | He , Ratagan and Isay were wandering the fortress and taking in the holiday atmosphere for want of something else to do before the feast began . |
| 25 | She snapped the seat belt into position and stared out through the window as if in search of something else to organize . |
| 26 | Rostov tried to think of something else to say , but suddenly it was as if his brain had dried up . |
| 27 | What so you 've got to think of something now to say ? |
| 28 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 29 | Hearing that the young man was the only son of a gentleman of wealth , the money-lender begged of him never to hesitate in coming to him again whenever he stood in need of a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 30 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |