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Sentence Examples
| During the communal drug culture of the 1960s, 'to bogart' meant to selfishly smoke a joint without sharing. |
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| There's also another 'To Do' list as long as my arm, but I'm feeling too ill to do any of it. |
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| The Zamenhofian verb komentarii 'to comment' is very often replaced by komenti. |
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| He's not here so we are chelping in the staffroom and ignoring the 'to do' list on the board. |
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| Compelled in the 1940s to give a clue to her motivation, she said that she aimed 'to say a small thing edgily. |
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| Fenton, in order 'to reform this Inordinacy of his Desires', tells the boy a story about three little fishes. |
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| Lettish saclt means 'to say' and saka is an expression for the narrative form saga. |
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| The term jig was probably derived from the French giguer, meaning 'to jump' or the Italian giga. |
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| The handout is supposed 'to help pay your heating bills' and designed as a flat sum for all pensioners to put towards the costs of keeping warm during the icy winter months. |
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| At Abbotsbury, Fox Strangways endeavoured 'to prove our climate not to be so Siberian as the French and other Continentals calumniously assume it to be. |
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| Firkytoodle, meaning 'to indulge in preliminary caresses,' among its synonyms 'to dildo, to clitorize,' is listed in Farmer and Henley's Slang and Its Analogues. |
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| Derived from the French word 'chanter', meaning 'to sing', they may date from as early as the 15th century, but most recorded examples derive from the 19th century. |
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| The verb to kirk, meaning 'to present in church', was probably first used for the annual church services of some Scottish town councils, known as the Kirking of the Council. |
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| According to Lance Gokongwei, Robinsons Bank chairman, the purchase will allow the JG Summit group 'to get back into mainstream commercial banking. |
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| Longley points out that 'to characterise Irish nationalism as archetypally female both gives it a mythic pedigree and exonerates it from aggressive and oppressive intent. |
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| It seems likely that the adverbs formed from the CP of thoon 'to do' occur with transitive verbs and those from the CP of boon 'to be, become' with intransitive verbs. |
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| The aim here is not to discredit Badder but 'to put what he accomplished in perspective' and to describe his limitations without discrediting his achievements. |
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| Dave Hodgetts, Managing Director for Honda, said, 'To be recognised by a publication as well respected as Top Gear is a great achievement for the CR-Z and for Honda. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| For 'to be' is the participation of being in present time, 'to have been' in past, 'to be about to be' in future time. |
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| Are you a millionaire,' his face said, 'to pay eighty francs for one day's drive? |
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| Iris also appears to have been called from the verb 'to tell', because she was a messenger. |
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| It did not even interest Ollyett that the verb 'to huckle' had passed into the English leader-writers' language. |
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| Lockwood, not impossibly, would have said it was 'to do a bit of walking' he had come. |
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| Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever. |
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| Hence Ganymede is said 'to pour the wine to Zeus,' though the gods do not drink wine. |
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| The Anglo-Norman Dictionary has an entry for beitrer, where it is explained as 'to steer' and the variant forms beiter, beitier are also listed. |
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| Micawber, in her argumentative tone, 'to be the Caesar of his own fortunes. |
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| I am more delighted than I can possibly tell you,' rejoined Mr Chester with the utmost blandness, 'to find my own impression so confirmed. |
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| I am going to Mecca,' I said, 'to make the circuit of the kaaba. |
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| I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous. |
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| I was down at the Docks early this morning, sir,' he returned, 'to get information concerning of them ships. |
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| I want you, Bolter,' said Fagin, leaning over the table, 'to do a piece of work for me, my dear, that needs great care and caution. |
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| So delighted,' said Mrs Merdle, 'to resume an acquaintance so inauspiciously begun at Martigny. |
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| Omer, 'to keep a fractious old lady company, they didn't very well agree, and she didn't stop. |
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| I am sorry,' said I, laughing afresh, 'to have occasioned such a dispersion. |
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| Do me the favour,' said Eugene, getting out of his chair with much gravity, 'to come and inspect that feature of our establishment which you rashly disparage. |
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| This is a fellow,' she said, 'to champion and bring here, is he not? |
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| Furthermore, 'to mak siccar,' my father has taken the opposite side of the fireplace and is deep in the latest five columns of Gladstone, who is his Carlyle. |
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| From the equally chaotic product of Colonel Richard Lovelace stand out the two well-known bits of noble idealism, 'To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,' and 'To Althea, from Prison. |
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