Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A business executive who is faced with dismissal usually has to content himself with seeking financial compensation in the form of damages for breach of contract , unfair dismissal compensation or state redundancy pay . |
| 2 | So should we be surprised that the architect has to content himself with high fees most of the time as his reward when an ungrateful society refuses to thank him ? |
| 3 | RYAN GIGGS has to content himself again with being Wales ' not-so-secret weapon here tonight . |
| 4 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 5 | So , in order to get his views across , such a candidate has to content himself with stuffing letter boxes , distributing tracts , and holding poorly attended public meetings in bare , underheated school assembly halls . |
| 6 | When it drops to minimum it may fall to 15 , and will be out of binocular range for some time . |
| 7 | R Coronæ , in the bowl , is generally well within binocular range , and can just become visible with the naked eye , but when it drops to minimum it may fall to as low as magnitude 15 . |
| 8 | England are committed to a three-game summer tour in America , where Taylor wants to fine-tune his squad for the 1994 World Cup finals . |
| 9 | The UCC 's Division of Communication meets yearly and feeds the major issues and needs to Kristine who then works with committees to help educate and work alongside congregations . |
| 10 | Rainey 's YZR meanwhile looked as rideable as ever and he no longer needs to broadside his Dunlops as he did in 1989 . |
| 11 | I 've seen what happens to nomes who stand in front of cars . |
| 12 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 13 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 14 | I asked her what on earth happens to people who do n't live in a small town where they are known and therefore helped . |
| 15 | What happens to people who get HIV ? |
| 16 | You would n't like what happens to people who try to cheat me ’ |
| 17 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 18 | Why are hospital patients discharged so quickly and what happens to people who can not afford the expense of convalescent care . |
| 19 | Um one of the things that you sometimes find is that the abuse is characterised is something special , something secret , something that you should n't tell anybody else about because it 's our secret and you know what happens to people who tell secrets ? |
| 20 | myself , I think that if any thing happens to Keith which is obviously he 's not gon na live a long life if any thing happens to him I , I myself I reckon she 'll go back to London , because she 's got absolutely nothing here she 's got a cousin although , I do n't think she 'd move in , in with her cousin |
| 21 | SHORTLY after the Russians invaded , the famous Barrandov Studios , in which so many world-class directors had worked , were to be used for the making of a film called Factory Of Illusions , in which a young and idealistic graduate of the Film Academy arrives to find well-known film-makers of the New Wave drinking and whoring instead of making films , and almost succumbs to counter-revolution himself . |
| 22 | As we have seen , the feminine is at some fundamental level uncontrollable within the poem , even Britomart succumbs to passions which cause her knightly skills to lapse . |
| 23 | Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) . |
| 24 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 25 | God you 'd 've laughed they were on about that as well at same time and he says to Steve what do you reckon to idea , he says it does n't sound bad , he says what do you reckon to idea as I says no . |
| 26 | I picked it up , I says to Steve who 's Paddy Ashdown ? |
| 27 | says to Jim what if they get through do you know what for Wembley |
| 28 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 29 | It starts of Stuart says to Geoff what team do you support , support and he says Nottingham Forest , ooh Nottingham Forest urgh and he takes the mickey out of him which okay , then he called him |
| 30 | aha , well I says to Billy we 'll go shopping |