Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] order [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 2 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 3 | To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed . |
| 4 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 5 | We must turn to Law 's leading supporters as well as to himself in order to assess the real character of the party . |
| 6 | He is an individual Who through constructive and progressive training can be encouraged to think increasingly for himself in order to carry out his role as an infantryman . |
| 7 | The safety diver had clambered onto the iceberg , risking a tear in his suit and the possibility of tipping the iceberg over on top of himself in order to signal his presence in the deepening gloom . |
| 8 | It was his passionate conviction that sarvodaya , which might be regarded as a practical expression of Truth , could only be effected by means of ahi sā , and the votary of ahi sā would be prepared to sacrifice himself in order to realize this ideal . |
| 9 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 10 | The more varied or diversified the business of the client , and the larger the amount of insurance to be placed , the more likely it is that he will look around the market for himself in order to obtain the best terms . |
| 11 | But on reflection I understood that this was no coincidence : Jean-Claude needed a Jew with whom to debase himself in order to have the licence to abuse him in return . |
| 12 | In each of these forms , the Word is the Word insofar and only insofar as God really expresses and communicates himself through it ; and the special task of Christian dogmatics is to refer the present proclamation of Jesus Christ back to its original ground in God himself in order to clear away distortions and misrepresentations so that the Word itself can be heard afresh in its own integrity . |
| 13 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 14 | I think Jeff , on the other hand , is willing to give up himself in order to become his reflection. , for example , that half of its projects consumed less than 2% of its total development manpower . |
| 15 | When you suspect that someone is flattering you in order to manipulate , or responding in an artificial manner , ask for specific detail . |
| 16 | It does n't bear thinking about , but I only hope I shall have learnt something from you in order to carry it on in some way or another . ’ |
| 17 | A clause similar to the following should be included : In order for our investors to proceed with their due diligence , we would ask for your consent to the following : ( a ) that senior management within the [ Group ] can be made aware of the proposed management buy-out and that we can be allowed to provide information to the investors and their advisers , subject to satisfactory letters of confidentiality on both sides ; ( b ) that the investor can instruct [ investigating accountants ] to commence work on producing an accountant 's report on the [ Group ] ; ( c ) that [ investigating accountants ] can contact [ existing auditors ] to obtain historical financial information in respect of the [ Group ] and shall be entitled to have access to the existing auditors ' working papers ; ( d ) that our advisers can contact you in order to progress this transaction . |
| 18 | Unbeknown to you the real motive is to question you in order to undermine your position . |
| 19 | It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date ! |
| 20 | ( If your luff is indeed flapping you need to pull the sail towards you in order to fill it with wind . ) |
| 21 | You will remember that on the occasion of the first valleys initiative statement we had to raise many points with you in order to persuade the right Hon. Gentleman to come here 24 hours after he had made a statement in Wales . |
| 22 | ‘ I understand that your wife divorced you in order to marry Riddle . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not in line to go to bed with you in order to keep my job ! ’ she told him bluntly . |
| 24 | Accordingly , recommendations with regard to further investigations , etc. can be forwarded to you in order to enhance the state of preparedness in the event of legal aid being granted . |
| 25 | ‘ Now do you believe me when I say that I did n't touch you in order to prove some theory about your boyfriend meaning nothing to you ? ’ |
| 26 | Why did Mr Briggs write to you in order to find me ? ’ |
| 27 | You are unlikely to want to copy slavishly what you see in the magazines but you may choose to adapt those ideas which appeal to you in order to feel happier with the way you look . |
| 28 | When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom . |
| 29 | It is with regret that we are writing to you in order to register our continuing concern about the decision taken at F&S ; on Tuesday . |
| 30 | Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick . |