Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 2 | A Kha-Khan did not ask ; he commanded , and it was left simply for everyone else to obey . |
| 3 | Next I ask myself , does one congratulate oneself on getting married or not ? — or is that left for everyone else to do ? |
| 4 | It was Greg Carey , and as if his entrance was a cue for everyone else to appear , the Christmas Eve cocktail party was in full swing within ten minutes . |
| 5 | He is content for everyone else to have their say first , though his everyday associates and friends respect his views too much to let him get away with that too often . |
| 6 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
| 7 | Shrewsbury by the way are a third division team , they 're about eighth or ninth in the table so er a great chance for them tonight to cause a major upset . |
| 8 | Wynne-Jones 's knowledge of the woodland realm was far too useful for them simply to abandon him and race furiously for the north . |
| 9 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 10 | ‘ In order for them not to happen the law would have to be changed and , with the time it would take to change the law , we would n't be able to do so before the elections are due to happen . |
| 11 | There 's no excuse for them not to go into the medical practice booklet because they 've got fifteen thousand patients or thereabouts . |
| 12 | She came to see him once , was shy and vague and noncommittal , later wrote to say it was best for them not to see each other again . |
| 13 | Er our distribution system has got great press recently and it 's regarded as one of the three best distribution systems in the U K. One of the things we 're trying to do is to pay less for our books , it 's very easy to pay very very fancy prices for , for er mid-range authors and for them not to earn out , so we 're looking for much cheaper books . |
| 14 | For the normal continuation of the museums ' collecting and activities , it is better for them not to collect pictures by European masters for kopeks in Russia , but to buy equipment and restoration materials with serious money in the West . |
| 15 | Erm it would be extremely difficult t for them not to occupy our thoughts , I 'm not sure whether your question is is inviting me to consider what the European Community should be doing in the context of Bosnia . |
| 16 | So they reverted to their original position : that as neither of them missed sex , it was OK for them not to have it . |
| 17 | Gives her income and it 's balanced by her allowances and if you move not sufficient to , for the income to exceed that then at the same time it goes into a bank or building society you apply for them not to deduct income . |
| 18 | He thought it was reasonable for them not to provide night care even now and essential for them to have a night sleeper for seven nights a week from this time on . |
| 19 | Either they operated some kind of taboo against such things , or else the technological relics of past civilisations were commonplace enough for them not to attach importance to a vessel which they must at least suspect to be in operable condition . |
| 20 | While members were asked not to behave in a representative manner , the source of their nomination ( councils , fellow doctors , nurses and trade unionists ) made it very difficult for them not to consider ramifications on their constituencies . |
| 21 | It is hard for them not to believe , for they slip in and out of belief caressed by the changing breezes of cultural fashion . |
| 22 | In general , it is often unnecessary for exporters to cover every currency risk but imprudent for them not to cover any risk . |
| 23 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 24 | Nor is there any power for them either to require details from people in order to keep a register or to require people to continue to notify them of changes in any register . |
| 25 | While I was doing that all the drums I left last week for them just to do they had n't done . |
| 26 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
| 27 | Would it be possible for them also to prune this tree hard back so the light can be seen . |
| 28 | Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation . |
| 29 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 30 | Whilst in many cases firms with more than 20 partners will for reasons of publicity wish to set out their names on the firm 's documentation , there is no compulsion for them so to do ( and beyond a certain number it obviously becomes impracticable ) . |