Example sentences of "[indef pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |
| 2 | Someone to be around . |
| 3 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 4 | What we need is someone to liven things up . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Where did you come from ? , ’ asks someone to the Swamp Thing in The Return Of The Swamp Thing ( Cannons , Oxford Street and Panton Street , 12 ) . |
| 6 | Nine o'clock for someone to be taken to — ’ ( It was the day-care centre for the very old — those no longer able to manage for themselves . ) |
| 7 | It is far more difficult to approach someone to whom you do not feel at all dose and in many cases the only way to do this is by means of a third person who may be willing to ask them for their opinion of you . |
| 8 | It was the one shared walk of the Rambles and I had forgotten the golden rule when introducing someone to the hills , never to stretch them beyond their ability . |
| 9 | Always take someone to the toilet if they ask . |
| 10 | ‘ The American way of doing things is to have an idea and then persuade someone to back it . |
| 11 | The theory is that industrial alcohol can desensitize someone to all synthetic organic chemicals , because it is derived from oil . |
| 12 | Someone to be here , to care about her ? |
| 13 | Nobody ever volunteered to work with Brian , so Mr Grovey always had to force someone to , usually by threatening something terrible if they refused . |
| 14 | While that child is away , the organizer chooses someone to be the murderer . |
| 15 | So there is none of the relief of a true unburdening , and the discussion of problems that characterises the homecoming of someone to a companion who is close in age as well as relationship . |
| 16 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 17 | Or perhaps Mrs A is holding forth on her views on battered wives or battery hens or baptizing babies , really with the hope of having a head-on argument or of converting someone to her way of thinking . |
| 18 | This , however , is not at all uncommon when regressing someone to such an early age , for babies do not have an awareness of time in the same way that adults do . |
| 19 | One solution is never to leave your home unoccupied again , but if you ca n't face life without holidays you could pay someone to be there when you are n't . |
| 20 | How could one live with someone , love someone to distraction and be blind or , at least , allow oneself to be kept in the dark about so many things ? |
| 21 | Vi had a roof over her head again , bed and board and two shillings a day pay , and , better than that , she had found someone to mother . |
| 22 | ‘ There were a lot of decisions made on the mainland — and she was not someone to be sat on . ’ |
| 23 | This attitude is not uncommon but it was new to me , as were a good many of Sophie 's ideas , and because of its novelty I think I was unconsciously moulded by it : I had begun to see Richard as someone to be ‘ got round ’ , a duped enemy rather than a husband . |
| 24 | The jury heard he constructed a bogus defence claiming his wife was murdered by someone to whom she was supplying drugs . |
| 25 | I suppose it would have been easy for someone to ‘ lift ’ a few odd balls , but my innocent mind had never though of this ! |
| 26 | Here was someone to whom I could confide . |
| 27 | In this room there was an enormous human bomb in front of them which was liable to explode and blow someone to bits any moment . |
| 28 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 29 | Hopefully , this will prove to be a posthumous tribute to someone to whom the Trust have cause to be grateful , and are much saddened by his death . |
| 30 | While most of us would admit to having hurt another person deliberately , we recoil in horror from the thought of subjecting someone to extreme pain for impersonal reasons . |