Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 2 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 3 | Two of them may fall to Labor . |
| 4 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 5 | Phil is an ardent Stoke City supporter and season ticket holder and colleagues joked me may need to ‘ get away from it all ’ as he is still trying to shrug off his team 's F.A . |
| 6 | The heading in the manuscript appears to tally with a stage direction in the word-book , ‘ A Chinese Man and Woman dance ’ , printed between the final verse and chorus ‘ They shall be as happy as they 're fair ’ But this direction means merely that the Chinese Man and Woman are to dance to the music of the verse , just as the next printed stage direction , ‘ All the Dancers join in it ’ , which follows the words of the final chorus , means that all of them should dance to its music . |
| 7 | She had suggested that one of them should pretend to be ill , shout for help and then , when one of their captors responded , the others should attack him . |
| 8 | Little wonder then that those who seek peace ( that is the absence of violence ) between nations as well as within them should look to law as a means of regulating and reducing the international use of force . |
| 9 | Charlotte then employed every sign that she knew to tell the other fishermen that none of them should put to sea on that day , to no avail . |
| 10 | I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love most dearly . ’ |
| 11 | I may go to my son 's room and say to him : ‘ Since today is a special day you may play in my study while I work there . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't know if I shall join the company yet , I may do , I may go to Paris , I may die , my face may even turn blue . |
| 13 | Then I may go to the Antarctic , maybe back to the South Pole again , hopefully with Nicky . ’ |
| 14 | I may go to bed early and read me books . |
| 15 | Grant that by my prayers and alms , I may give to each continent what it requires : to Africa , a native clergy of black hands lifting your body ; to Asia , a rich harvest from the red blood , seed of her martyrs ; to Oceania , a necklace of islands made into a Rosary for the faith ; to Europe , already so tired , a renewal of youth at the altar of God ; to America , an exchange of the pearl of great price for material riches . |
| 16 | If I may return to my earlier metaphor — you will excuse my putting it so coarsely — they are like a man who will , at the slightest provocation , tear off his suit and his shirt and run about screaming . |
| 17 | Anyway , if I may return to our Treasurer 's anguished tale , matters became ever worse . |
| 18 | Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York . |
| 19 | WILLIAMS : I hope I may trust to your discretion not to let Mr. Belville know from whom you had the information . |
| 20 | Thus , I may consent to my daughter 's marriage , to be governed by the decisions of the majority , or to my friend 's handling my financial affairs . |
| 21 | My Lords , if I may revert to the proposition that a person can not consent to the theft of property from himself , it is absurd to suppose that a company consents to the theft of its own property , merely because the thief is for most purposes of the company its directing mind . |
| 22 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 23 | I may have to nursemaid you , but I 'll be damned if I 'll let you bugger things up for me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I may have to . ’ |
| 25 | I may agree to decisions which are quite contrary to my own standards . |
| 26 | If I may say to those on the Front Benches too , half-hour speeches would help the whole House . |
| 27 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 28 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 29 | At the risk of sounding pompous — for this was very basic medicine — I thought I ought to explain to Miss Sowerby just what I was thinking of . |
| 30 | I ought to go to the party . |