Example sentences of "to [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was convinced her 18-year-old son 's pop dreams would come to nothing and pressured him to accept a job offer from a bank . |
| 2 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
| 3 | As there will be students of varying experience and ability , it is essential that the information is clearly presented to everyone while ensuring that the least able understand the demonstration . |
| 4 | Thanks to everyone that wrote in ! |
| 5 | She smiled a general goodnight to everyone and started to walk away , accompanied by Mike . |
| 6 | Chairman of Essex County Council 's Education Committee , Ian Abbey , said : ‘ The trust 's aim will be to make art accessible to everyone and provide an important education facility for our young people . ’ |
| 7 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 8 | of the liability to everyone and leave householders to claim the discount if they are entitled to 25 per cent . |
| 9 | of the liability to everyone and leave discounts to be claimed by householders . |
| 10 | The problem is that Taurus tried to be too nice to everyone and did n't tread too hard on the banks ’ toes . ’ |
| 11 | I found myself talking to someone and watching him go to sleep on his feet . |
| 12 | Because you do n't just suddenly go in give communion to someone and walk away again do you ? |
| 13 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 14 | The blindfolded Brownie points to someone and asks them to make a noise . |
| 15 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 16 | He wanted to speak to someone and hear their voice speaking to him . |
| 17 | It 's real hard to listen to someone and say , ‘ Oh yeah , this guy 's definitely playin' Texas music . ’ |
| 18 | We would normally say how many what would you say would you go up to someone and say , How many toes have you ? what would say ? |
| 19 | You do n't just walk up to someone and say , " Hi ! |
| 20 | And you ca n't unfortunately take it away on block like I said , and give it to someone and say , finish it off . |
| 21 | You can sell to somebody that wants them . |
| 22 | When you reply to somebody or send an acceptance or |
| 23 | Similarly if someone has left a certain amount to somebody and has added that the sum can quite easily be offset , since the beneficiary is his debtor on account of Gaius Seius ' estate ; yet the beneficiary does not wish to enter that estate but claims the trust : our emperor replied by rescript that he was claiming the trust against the intention of the testator , since in trusts the intention of the testator is particularly to be regarded and observed . |
| 24 | And when it comes to appointments , they just get on the blower to somebody and say ‘ give me your views ’ , and it 's the same circle of people they know and trust . |
| 25 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 26 | It is Wimbledon men 's finals day , and the television shows McEnroe beating Connors ; the score is two sets to none and match point to McEnroe in the third . |
| 27 | Mrs Garfitt , fat , voluble and slovenly , paused for breath and gave a perfunctory stir to something that looked like workhouse broth on one of the meatless days . |
| 28 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
| 29 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 30 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |