Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 2 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 3 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 4 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 5 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 6 | You can even create subject profiles that guide you to the pages containing stories most relevant to yourself . |
| 7 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 8 | With the weight of John 's head slowly reducing one leg to numbness , I decided to try and explain it to myself . |
| 9 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 10 | Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to . |
| 11 | So you know , I say things like oh I 'm going down to see Zoey now before dinner and like she 'll follow me down or something and I 'll say oh are you going into the saloon or like to try and get her to not come with me , then I feel so guilty I think well poor Marina , you know , she 's here in a foreign country , she has n't got any friends and she 's all by herself and I would n't like it if I was in her position |
| 12 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 13 | Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee . |
| 14 | I shall have to come and do it to your mother and see what she thinks . |
| 15 | Erm would I be able to come and see you to er any time this afternoon about my project ? |
| 16 | ‘ Gives me an excuse to come and put you to bed , I guess . |
| 17 | By the way her mother fiddled with the handle of her wicker basket Constance could tell that she was longing for the bus to come and take her to Chollerton where her beauty and style might stand some chance of being noticed . |
| 18 | complete the application form ( and in some cases , ask your husband or wife to sign the consent form included and return it to you ) |
| 19 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 20 | He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle . |
| 21 | Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . |
| 22 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 23 | At a push , you could use a disk editor , such as the one included with Norton Utilities , to recover files — just hunt down the file you want and copy it to a new file . |
| 24 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |
| 25 | The Howie Report receives details scrutiny from , who explores the different messages it contains and relates them to Scotland 's past and future . |
| 26 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 27 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 28 | White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’ |
| 29 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 30 | On the whole , acting in isolation is a peculiar feature of the audition system , which is why the pieces you choose in either the classic or modern text need to be reasonably well contained and lend themselves to being performed as a one man show . |