Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 2 | He did n't want to see me or talk to me , he or his parents . |
| 3 | Laughing , she dodged his attempts to catch her and ran to the door . |
| 4 | I 've managed to arrange to meet her and talk to her and this should take place tomorrow ( though it 's being organised by a very unreliable man , one of the expatriate drunks that live here ) . |
| 5 | Aunt Margaret glanced round for something with which to distract her and darted to the corner where the cage was . |
| 6 | It is clearly easier to spot other people making mistakes than either to catch yourself or to admit to yourself that you did so . |
| 7 | Erm in both of them it 's , they 're saying that how they 're falling behind and they ought to lead them as opposed to joining them . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll persuade him to sell it and return to Hastings , where he 'll take up his old life as an accountant . ’ |
| 9 | That way , I would n't have to see you or speak to you at all ! ’ |
| 10 | Although it can become distracting if the children always want to use it when you 're working as a whole group , there may be times when you want everybody to take a piece of cloth and make themselves something with it — a headband or a belt in a particular colour , for example to identify them as belonging to a particular group . |
| 11 | He tidied up , damped the fire down , undressed down to his underwear , took a cushion from the armchair to use as a pillow , used his overcoat to cover himself and went to sleep on the rug beside the hearth . |
| 12 | I mean that each image tries to express something that belongs to millions of people . ’ |
| 13 | The Holy Spirit is given us to identify us as belonging to Jesus , just as the seal on a letter or the brand on a sheep identifies it as mine . |
| 14 | I had n't seen her since before the trial , I really wanted to reassure her and talk to her on her own , to help my relationship with her continue . |
| 15 | She had threatened to leave him and return to Badajoz . |
| 16 | Gabrielle 's boyfriend had to leave her and return to Germany alone because his motorbike was too small to take a passenger , so she contacted the local police . |
| 17 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 18 | However brilliant our modern technology may seem , the best way to care for the Taj is to monitor its behaviour , try to reduce pollution and develop a team of conservators and craftsmen who can care for the building , carrying out maintenance and repair where necessary but not to do anything that pretends to be final . |
| 19 | They were brought up to respect us and to go to a policeman when they were in trouble . |
| 20 | When she followed him to Italy I believe she had already made up her mind to leave us and go to him . |
| 21 | He got up slowly from his chair to stretch himself and went to the window , overlooking the back car lot . |
| 22 | The teacher must provide opportunities for pupils to examine the widest range of evidence , to question it and come to conclusions . |
| 23 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |
| 24 | He seems barely able to recognize us and refers to last year 's campaign on Azrad as if it were yesterday . ’ |
| 25 | She did not want to see him or speak to him . |
| 26 | Several undergraduates who knew him from his Trinity days often came to see him and wrote to him especially at Christmas . |
| 27 | I 'll have to see him and talk to him . |
| 28 | No one in Coniston talked about crazy Demdykes ; and her cousins , Robin and Jenny , seemed to like her and want to be friends . |
| 29 | When we make something like these ten steps our daily discipline , we are aiming for it to be a vehicle through which we meet God and learn to love him and listen to him and abide in him . |
| 30 | The Elf-ghosts are anxious , rather confused , and take a lot of time to decide anything when spoken to . |