Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have refused to write that note to her parents or walk obediently to the car and climb into the boot . |
| 2 | Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side . |
| 3 | It would be a terrible shame to see that go to waste . ’ |
| 4 | To acknowledge that amounts to something very different from simply excising history as such . |
| 5 | ‘ Having done the Tunstall settlement — which was really driven by concern over the costs , it seemed to us that we had a moral obligation to extend that deal to other shareholders , ’ Ernst & Young 's national marketing partner David Wilson told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 6 | Because he wanted to forget that place to which , some terrible fear told him , he would never return . |
| 7 | We are to understand that owing to B 's negligence an injury was sustained either by C or by some other user of the highway . |
| 8 | Further to compound my mystification , he does not seem to realise that according to Christian dogma , God is not only loving but also just and that He may be calling Christians to a future life which is not necessarily ‘ better ’ than the present . |
| 9 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 10 | Everything that can be done to stop that has to be done . |
| 11 | To say that seems to me really to beg the question . |
| 12 | How much of the liquor in this anthropoid coffin was body fluid will have to be left to the imagination ; suffice it to say that owing to the construction of such coffins it would have been practically impossible to have introduced much liquid preservatives . |
| 13 | I will attempt to show that answers to this question have to do with the almost hidden insidious nature of modern life . |
| 14 | Having raised expectations , he went on to limit that help to just 100,000 people ; and of those 100,000 , 60,000 were offered no more than the chance to work on a community scheme for next to nothing . |
| 15 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |