Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [pron] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't need to tell her to be careful . |
| 2 | Personally I would like to believe it to be peacefully verdant . |
| 3 | ‘ We would like to warn everybody to be on their guard against unsolicited ‘ tradesmen ’ , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They may prefer to believe themselves to be special and different in their primary addictions rather than part of a wider group of sufferers from addictive disease . |
| 5 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 6 | ‘ I said I would have to teach you to be beautiful , and I do n't intend to fail . ’ |
| 7 | The most encouraging feature of the Election however , from Your Majesty 's point of view , is the strong impression that I have formed that Your Majesty 's subjects do not wish to allow themselves to be divided into warring classes or tribes filled with hereditary animosity against each other . |
| 8 | As to that other matter — ’ he stood up and came round his desk ‘ — I do n't have to ask you to be discreet , do I ? |
| 9 | The popular view of children being " corrupted " by sexual offenders is hard to overcome ( repression of the child 's feeling and subsequent inhibition is far more likely ) and the child may come to feel itself to be corrupted without any clear knowledge of the significance of the term or the act itself . |
| 10 | Lori sent him one of her most seductive smiles that made Paige long to warn her to be careful . |