Example sentences of "[vb infin] [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 | Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee . |
| 6 | We did n't know whether to give it to her or not . |
| 7 | I 've received a letter and I do n't know whether to show it to the police . |
| 8 | We called friends in Australia and amazingly , they found a cylinder we could rent and shipped it to Darwin . |
| 9 | Your coach will collect and return you to your hotel on completion of the tour . |
| 10 | If mothers had money of their own earmarked for childcare , they could choose whether to use it to ‘ pay ’ themselves or pay someone else — workers in day-care centres , for instance . |
| 11 | Is it not true that giving 17-year-olds fines does not work and sending them to prison is counterproductive ? |
| 12 | The thought which came most readily was to restrict the amount of paper which each student could use and to force them to be more economical with it . |
| 13 | We should not limit the power and majesty of God to what we can understand but leave it to him . |
| 14 | I 'd quicker burn than mention it to Miss Lavant . |
| 15 | Once you 've stuck your shapes and text on the page you can rotate and repeat they to your heart 's content . |
| 16 | We 'll try and bring it to you later in the programme . |
| 17 | I suppose they might try and sellotape her to the walls of their cells . |
| 18 | Well I would try and get something to that effect in writing . |
| 19 | And you want me to introduce you , so that you can try and sell it to him . ’ |
| 20 | and she 's going round , she 's gon na try and take them to court ! |
| 21 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 22 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 23 | And as Hotspur turned to face him , in mild but sympathetic surprise : ‘ He can not suppose that allying himself to the duchess of Brittany will either placate or frighten the French . |
| 24 | And he seemed more alert than when he had left , less inclined to shrug and yawn and leave everything to her . |
| 25 | So if you want to get rid of somebody you can go and tell them to peu de doci which means getting lost . |
| 26 | Yeah I I might go and treat myself to some today . |
| 27 | Can you go and explain it to Mrs when she 's finished talking to Christopher ? |
| 28 | I must go and break it to dear Dimity , and then we must clear up things here , and set off for Thrush Green without delay . ’ |
| 29 | er the one 's that I choose to make , but I would n't go and ask someone to , to help me with it . |
| 30 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |