Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 2 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 3 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 4 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 5 | Noting that the EC central bank proposed by Delors would not be accountable to elected governments , Major proposed instead to build on to Stage 1 further steps to promote convergence of economic performance , low inflation and stable exchange rates by building up the existing EC currency , the ECU . |
| 6 | Originally a native of Mediterranean lands , it has never adapted completely to cold , wet conditions . |
| 7 | The comment about Tape Unit 18 made above applies also to Tape Unit 19 : at first hearing it seems very difficult , but when worked on step by step it is far from impossible . |
| 8 | All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'd better go on to Granny Fordham 's . |
| 10 | Well er watch how you go you 'd better go back to bed now I suppose . |
| 11 | Ooh , I 'd better go back to work had n't I ? |
| 12 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 13 | I 'd better live up to tradition and carry you over the threshold ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I think you 'd better get straight to bed , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , I 'd better get off to bed . |
| 16 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 17 | You know I mean always looked forward to champagne but er there we are . |
| 18 | By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work . |
| 19 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 20 | Robbie , leaning against the cushions of a high-backed wooden settle , fought hard to hold on to reality . |
| 21 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 22 | Sources note that Adobe Systems Inc did not go along to Apple Computer Inc 's MAS shindig as many hoped . |
| 23 | But she did not reply directly to Labour 's allegations that the Government had provided aid to others who were supporting the Pol Pot forces . |
| 24 | Nevertheless Dynamius accused Theodore of plotting against Guntram , had him arrested and sent to the king for trial ; again the accusations did not stand up to scrutiny . |
| 25 | The assertion , by Mr Guy Woodall , 37 , of Leatherhead , Surrey , that his sparkling British drink was the 400-year-old tradition known as elderflower champagne did not stand up to analysis , said counsel Mr Nicolas Bragge . |
| 26 | Assessment shows that the rhetoric of community involvement did not stand up to examination in the way that bids were compiled . |
| 27 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 28 | Mutual love did not add up to happiness . |
| 29 | ‘ The players need to feel confident and secure in their positions and we are counting on those players who did not come up to expectation against Scotland , to make up for it against Ireland . ’ |
| 30 | And , as so often , I did not come back to bed . |