Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 2 | Or to congratulate me on my maiden speech ? |
| 3 | At the weekends when my Ma and Dad wanted a bit of peace , it was usually easier to send me to bide with Uncle Bill than to take me in the bus to my Uncle Geordie at Dalkeith . |
| 4 | I ask this council to ignore the recommendation from the housing committee and to support me in passing this amendment . |
| 5 | Coombes leaned out of the window and shouted ‘ Come on then , this time ’ as if to pull me off the road . |
| 6 | He went on : ‘ The truth of the matter is that Mr Branson and the Virgin Group appear to be ’ determined to get the company exclusively for themselves and to exclude me from it . |
| 7 | ‘ Your Grace , my father is but a merchant , and to marry me into this noble family he gave me a noble dowry , eight hundred marks . |
| 8 | The doctors laugh and the surgeon says : ‘ Yes we do know how to examine our patients , even without proper equipment , ’ as if to convince me of their capabilities . |
| 9 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 10 | She put the receiver down quickly as if to stop me from asking anything else about her illness , and it reminded me sharply of my Aunt Viv , bright , spirited and horse mad to the end . |
| 11 | He paused again , as if the memory of that year had stopped him ; and to prepare me for a new facet of himself , a new shift . |
| 12 | Mr Vinct brought in some of the ‘ Daily Service ’ folk to see me and to tell me about their work . |
| 13 | Here to stay for at least for another year and to haunt me for the next fifteen . |
| 14 | ‘ And to blame me for her bitterness is the height of absurdity ! |
| 15 | Whether he guessed what I was likely to say I do n't know , but he spoke with a sudden rush as if to prevent me from saying something that we would both have to accept and talk about . |
| 16 | He looked up , not expecting an answer , but to fix me with his stare . |
| 17 | Whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do . |
| 18 | They did n't know what was going on , like , did n't know what to do , whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do , but in the end , like , I just did n't come back here for a coupla months . |
| 19 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 20 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 21 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 22 | ‘ Would you be so kind as to excuse me for a moment ? |