Example sentences of "[vb infin] to this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 3 | It would , in my opinion , in many ways be more logical for an application to be released from custody on the ground of non-service or delayed service of a committal notice to be made to a first instance judge rather than direct to this court . |
| 4 | Would it object to this treatment of its old dwelling before the proper rites had been observed ? |
| 5 | many would also object to this kind of contribution to John 's wage packet . |
| 6 | One might object to this definition of free will on the grounds that once we find a complete unified theory we will be able to predict what people will do . |
| 7 | Does anybody object to this strategy of violence ? |
| 8 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 9 | He had been a little surprised that Miriam should surrender to this sort of jealousy , but perhaps he was not altogether displeased , because he found it feminine … in an attractive woman even faults and weaknesses are endearing . |
| 10 | Should we speak to this Crumwallis first , do you think , while the technical chaps are playing their games upstairs ? ’ |
| 11 | Well we had oh I 'm trying to think what we had today oh got out of assembly because I had to go and speak to this maths teacher who 's dead boring ! |
| 12 | Violet was surprised , that she should even speak to this man — and the crudest talk at that . |
| 13 | But , let's notice that , first of all , the Lord really did speak to this woman ! |
| 14 | ‘ Did you speak to this witness ? ’ |
| 15 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 16 | Her voice held the indignation that any Englishwoman would naturally bring to this subject . |
| 17 | erm and then the , the , the second import erm major action was about erm local government , and I think that 's really where the point which we , we 've reached a take-home message that we want to erm bring to this council . |
| 18 | What do we bring to this partnership for the voluntary sector . |
| 19 | We would be grateful for any publicity you can give to this event , including photographs . |
| 20 | The function unc can also be represented as an augmented Phillips curve and we shall refer to this relationship as the inflation-unemployment curve . |
| 21 | Actual statements about the self ( such as those obtained in the Ten Statements Test ) may not refer to this dimension at all , but instead relate to the psycho-linguistic question of the extent to which self and ( housewife ) role are differentiated in the self-concept . |
| 22 | We can refer to this division of language into parts as an atomistic approach , and its opposite — an approach which involves all the parts working together — as holistic . |
| 23 | We will refer to this document ( PIP ) , as well as the draft MPG , in our response . |
| 24 | We will refer to this document ( PIP ) , as well as the draft MPG , in our response . |
| 25 | Could you refer to this pestilence ? |
| 26 | For simplicity we shall refer to this model in what follows as the Fischer model . |
| 27 | Ten days ago , I spent my 33rd birthday flat on my back , contemplating the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death ( yup , it was a happy , happy day ) and wondering what my underlings would do to this column in my absence . |
| 28 | The only thing you could do to this programme is |
| 29 | Every single person in LASMO can contribute to this challenge by helping to ensure in every way you can that each pound , dollar , peso , rupee , lire or rupia is wisely spent . |
| 30 | We have spent a lot of time developing a methodology that could contribute to this process . |