Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father 's made it clear enough that he wants us to — to — ’ |
| 2 | You are a young gentleman and I am sorry to say , not better than I wish you to be . |
| 3 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 4 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 5 | When a new plane came in and they assigned it to our crew , it being the principle crew and we got to name it and we named our plane Skyscraper , I do have some later pictures but er it taken in front of the plane of the crew that I was flying with at that time and the ground crew in front of Skyscraper . |
| 6 | They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy . |
| 7 | The problem here seems to be this : am I saying that a child is responsible if and only if we declare her to be so , given that she knows what she is doing ? |
| 8 | Now hear this : I will take provisions only if you take me to Elaine and provide both of us with the things I ask for . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Only if you want me to . |
| 10 | Only if you want it to . |
| 11 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 12 | Only if he knew her to be ready to take that risk herself . |
| 13 | It 's something for us to discuss , that 's what I 'm saying , so , so if you commit yourself to something and balls up , erm , the general manager does n't get a copy of it , and nobody else does , just you and me . |
| 14 | So if you want it to beco to be a third you 've still got to make it an E and call it a double flat . |
| 15 | ‘ Perfectly correct , but the thing stores energy as well as transmitting it , so if he gets it to where he 's going , we 're in serious trouble . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ So if I invited you to my house you would not be upset by the simple food I would serve ? ’ |
| 17 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 18 | Anyway I think it might be a giggle , especially if we keep it to ourselves . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps it is time we discussed the rules that will govern the unfortunate time we spend together until I return you to Milano tomorrow . ’ |
| 20 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 21 | It may be apposite to consider that a corporate stand on under-fives and special needs is now a moral imperative and that we should take seriously the clarion calls of Warnock and the Select Committee , not only because we owe it to children and their families , but also because |
| 22 | ‘ I suggest we sit down while I explain them to you briefly . ’ |
| 23 | Much as it pained her to meekly obey , Shannon clambered slowly to her feet , muttering darkly beneath her breath . |
| 24 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 25 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |
| 26 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 27 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 28 | The town itself is peculiarly built , so that a person may live in it for years , and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people 's quarter or even with workers , that is , so long as he confines himself to his business or pleasure walks . |
| 29 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 30 | Dad said to me , ‘ Just imagine if you had packed it in when I told you to ! |