Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | comments fair that he did , he did come in twice and se the third time he said I 'm sorry I had to . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry I lied to you yesterday . ’ |
| 3 | Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police . |
| 4 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 5 | At seven years old I determined to be a great footballer . |
| 6 | I stood it for a bit and then I 'm afraid I said to him that what was sauce for the goose and at least I was n't married . ’ |
| 7 | The furniture is something different which appeals to people . |
| 8 | The furniture is something different which appeals to people . |
| 9 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 10 | The TV cameras attract the mindless who want to be seen by their friends . |
| 11 | The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton . |
| 12 | It 's interesting who get to be the ‘ authoritative ’ women in television . |
| 13 | Only the faithful who pray to her and draw on her strength can do that . |
| 14 | Twice weekly she went to Bath to meet Edward , though ever afterwards he made sure she was on the last bus home . |
| 15 | I did hear Ras Mohammed , the Ethiopian who kept to himself pretty much , got to be a big General but maybe you did n't know him . |
| 16 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 17 | It is good practice and you will soon learn how careful you have to be not to scare them — and the bigger the chub are , the more careful you have to be . |
| 18 | Oh , she knew what was going through his head all right , and how careful she had to be not to say or do anything he might misinterpret . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid you have to be like them cos , to survive |
| 20 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 21 | I hope I have made it clear now that although ( 1 ) to ( 5 ) are basically the same structure , each modification is itself a sufficient change to make it a different kind of game — and thus the experience is a different one according to which is chosen ( either by the teacher or the participants themselves ) . |
| 22 | The more one can do , the more careful one has to be not to go and do it . |
| 23 | But it would be a funny one to march to , would n't it , although , you know , but it it it was certainly in three four time . |
| 24 | I think it would be very exciting if they were changing , but I 'm afraid one has to be a reluctant revolutionary at the moment — there really is no evidence for that view . |
| 25 | There is always someone somewhere who is going to say — ‘ Why must we have fund raising ? ’ — Unfortunately because of the financial climate today it is always going to have to be a part of our Medau way of life — anyway this ‘ do your own thing ’ method has proved so popular we plan to continued in to 1986 with your help , of course — but — if you have any brilliant ideas for our next venture please send them in to the Office . |
| 26 | Topper was not one to strive for an imaginative simile when a well-used one came to hand . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm afraid we have to be on our way , Colonel , ’ Bill Robins explained . |
| 28 | Whether to cut the blue wire from the pin on the watch-face or the brown one soldered to the case . |
| 29 | No , I think it 's a brown one according to Mary it looked brown it brown one not so bad , I mean if it was erm if it was a grey one would of been a sewer rat ! |
| 30 | Ned continued to lose weight , and it was clear something had to be done . |