Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary is very sorry that she has to put off coming to dinner tonight They are not sure about getting a baby-sitter . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The letters we received do n't point to customer misuse but components failing prematurely . ’ |
| 3 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 4 | It was long thought that a mere redistribution of duties without any reduction in the total number of employees required or the total amount of work to be done did not amount to redundancy . |
| 5 | Los Angeles plans to stop slowly choking to death : John Lichfield , in Los Angeles , finds out how California 's biggest city intends to reverse 20 years of lax pollution control with an assault on its ‘ drive-in ’ lifestyle |
| 6 | So we know from previous studies that these ones when they die have n't gone to heaven |
| 7 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 8 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 9 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 10 | It was in a sense paradoxical that a regime for which the social repercussions accompanying industrial development in the West were anathema should have become actively committed to industrialization . |
| 11 | Arranging to receive goods before they have been stolen does not amount to handling : Park ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 164 ( CA ) , because " guilty knowledge must exist at the time when the offence is committed " . |
| 12 | The search for other materials to analyse has now progressed to copper alloys . |
| 13 | The accused in this case , however , were prosecuted for theft under section 1(1) of the Act and were convicted notwithstanding the submission of counsel for the defence to the effect that the crime for which the accused were indicted did not amount to theft because the seller had consented to sell the property , albeit consent had been obtained by fraud , as alleged . |
| 14 | ‘ Nonsense , lad , do endeavour not to succumb to melodramatics . ’ |
| 15 | Jaswinder Kaur , a Sikh girl from such a family , described , in Oppression of South Asian Women Vol I , 1977 , what she had to go through to get to college : |
| 16 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 17 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 18 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 19 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 20 | In the late 1950s , for example , listeners had to learn how to listen to stereo . |
| 21 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 22 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |