Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed my own fairy-tale — my own legend — and to see it come true . |
| 2 | And to see 'em hanging out upstairs with the spooks in their tennis shorts — God , what a picture . |
| 3 | The point is to be specific about income and to plan it to meet your maximum budget . |
| 4 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 5 | A deep sleep to refresh her mind and to enable her to think more clearly — especially about her own emotions . |
| 6 | The tree was 360mm in diameter and to enable me to get the correct clearance around the tree and the seat width I drew a rough development on the patio with chalk . |
| 7 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 8 | to enlarge a child 's knowledge , experience and understanding , develop his awareness of moral values and to enable him to become ‘ an active ’ and ‘ responsible ’ participant in society … capable of achieving as much independence as possible . |
| 9 | Designed for four sessions , Parenting In a TV Age provides a step-by-step process to help parents learn to analyse the media , to teach their children to do the same themselves and to enable them develop selection criteria for what to watch and what to miss . |
| 10 | These accounts are also used to settle banks ' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to conduct normal correspondent banking relationships ( see Chapter 3 , Foreign Exchange Market : Correspondent Banks ) . |
| 11 | ( ii ) To encourage subject departments to inspire pupils with an interest in their subject to use the Library/Resource Centre to further their knowledge of the subject and to enable them to use the skills of the subject , in particular by finding its concepts meaningful for the whole of life . |
| 12 | The broad aim was to assist colleges with the monitoring of their performance and to enable them to demonstrate to both LEAs and central government that they were cost effective . |
| 13 | The aims of the workshop are to help young people in the South Pacific to understand and respond to the mass media ( TV , video , radio and print ) and to enable them to recognise better quality media programmes . |
| 14 | The newer , smaller , spontaneous groups — of parents with mentally handicapped children , for example must be voluntary and self-help to retain their independence and to enable them to build the self-respect of their members . |
| 15 | The purpose of the narthex was to accommodate those , such as penitents , who were not permitted to enter the church , and to enable them to hear the service . |
| 16 | I feel that it 's about creating the warmth and security at home , in school , wherever they are , from outside to help build up their sense of warmth and security from within , and to enable them to learn how to deal with some of these issues so that they can cope with the difficulties of life when they grow up . |
| 17 | ‘ Sure , we want to make profits to give our shareholders a reasonable return on their investment , and to enable us to maintain and enhance our capital base so that we can give a steadily better service to an ever larger number of customers . |
| 18 | Messengers were despatched to inform its leaders , and to instruct them to cross Tweed early on , even at Kelso , and to advance up the south side . |
| 19 | And to establish I mean I think that as a g |
| 20 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 21 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 22 | For example , back injury is common among nurses and there is growing concern about the need to instruct nurses in proper lifting techniques ( p. 252 ) and to encourage them to use mechanical lifting devices as much as possible . |
| 23 | to maintain the loyalty of existing buyers , and to encourage them to use more ; |
| 24 | I opted for parsley to help them get over the difference in water and to remove any toxins produced by the parasitic attack , mint as an antiseptic and to encourage them to feed , fennel to help clear out the digestive tract in case of internal parasites ( a very mild air to pumpkin seeds ) and as a mild antiseptic , elderflowers to reduce the fish 's stress , pumpkin seeds to deal with the parasites and to help the skin heal , and garlic — again to deal with the parasites , but also as an antibiotic in case of secondary infection . |
| 25 | The seminar , which will be organised with WACC support , aims to help participants to be aware of the vital role of communication in the transition to democracy , and to encourage them to do all they can in their country 's struggle for peace and justice . |
| 26 | By introducing a per capita tax , it was the government 's aim to draw every adult 's attention to exactly how much their local services were costing and to encourage them to assess whether they were receiving value for money . |
| 27 | The main effect of the 1992 programme may well turn out to be psychological , that is to turn the attention of producers from the EC , and other developed economies , towards the European market and to encourage them to gather information on the markets of Europe . |
| 28 | Within the development zone new incentives need to be devised both to attract high calibre general practitioners and other primary health care workers to the inner city and to encourage them to provide the right kind of services . |
| 29 | Gradually there was added a whole range of extra payments to give doctors financial inducements to provide adequate surgery facilities and to encourage them to practise in unpopular industrial and inner-city areas , and in remote rural areas . |
| 30 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |