Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the plan , L&H 's 629 former partners are being asked to pay back over $40m over the next 10 years , with some partners ' personal assessments totalling as much as $400,000. 475 partners are thought to have approved the plan , but the remainder have either expressed their intention to appeal or have declared themselves personally bankrupt . |
| 2 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 3 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 4 | Henrique Alemão encouraged many people to come and settle to cultivate his extensive land . |
| 5 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 6 | However , our lives worked out , we are both happily remarried and , since we only live a mile apart , it 's very easy for the children to come and go to visit their father . ’ |
| 7 | Tell Ange to come and help pass me things Ben . |
| 8 | She wondered why Caretaker 's advice appeared to work and longed to ask him . |
| 9 | The great news is , they 're THE hippest accessory of the minute so if you 've got something to hide AND want to impress your friends , fake it in fabulous style ! |
| 10 | The real bitch is being the first to know but choosing to swallow his flimsy excuses and his transparent lies , in the hope that he 'll tire of his bit on the side and the threat , if unchallenged , will pass . |
| 11 | One has only to mouth that thought to recognise its absurdity . |
| 12 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 13 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 14 | And buy in food , if he has to , and if anyone has a surplus to sell and wants to sell it to him . |
| 15 | I find that totally objectionable from a Government who are shaping up to borrow and spend to save their necks . |
| 16 | The winners — Charles Outred , Vi Mitchell , Ian Howie and Mike McGinley , of Glasgow — had an unassailable lead with one match to go and relaxed to record their only loss in the last round . |
| 17 | Athenian youths had to be sent every three years to assuage the monster , and when Theseus , prince of Athens , grew old enough , he demanded to go and try to slay it . |
| 18 | No , he would hide there and he used to go and have to control them |
| 19 | In the end , leaders will be supported in the same way as they always have been : by winning people to Christ , who then begin to tithe their income in order to support and set free their leaders for full-time work in the church . |
| 20 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 21 | Under proposed University legislation , new graduates will automatically become members of the Graduates Association on receipt of their degrees , after which it is hoped that many will endeavour to create and foster the right conditions to make it attractive for graduates to want to belong and help make their membership worthwhile and rewarding . |
| 22 | We considered what we could do to help and decided to link it with our interest in running . ’ |
| 23 | That the rest had given rise to as much pain did not matter ; she herself had known by then what to expect and had steeled herself to bear it . |
| 24 | You will have a proactive role to play and need to advise your employer on all new developments in legislation and case law which affect the business and the relevant support services . |
| 25 | He travelled up to Windermere to view the property and had exploratory discussions with Edgar , who indicated that he wished to retire but preferred to sell his hotel to an individual or small group rather than a national chain . |
| 26 | It was as if the neighbour had sensed that the police officers were about to leave and wished to honour their departure with silence . |
| 27 | If you do manage to find a place in one , you must tidy it up when you 're ready to leave and remember to take your litter with you . |
| 28 | I sat at the table we used to use and tried to think what I really believed . |
| 29 | Labour has carried out a trawl of Departments in order to find something for their Labour colleagues in Newcastle to do and to justify giving them a huge bureaucracy and their own budget . |
| 30 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |