Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 2 | I wanted a drink , but I did n't want to go to a pub at that time of the evening , when the rush would be on , and the serious drinkers getting down to it . |
| 3 | ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’ |
| 4 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 6 | Lectures about this type of library material tend to sound like a catalogue of unfamiliar names — the ‘ catalogue aria ’ . |
| 7 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 8 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 9 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 10 | We have got to go to work with a lot of of of er tension and pressure on us . |
| 11 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
| 12 | On 14 September 1982 Gemayel planned to meet with a group of Mossad officers , but was killed when a bomb planted by Syrian intelligence exploded in the local Phalangist party offices where he was speaking . |
| 13 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 14 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 15 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 16 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 17 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 18 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 19 | The law says that British Coal has to go through a procedure of consultation before it can close pits . |
| 20 | If a report has to go through a number of drafts , it is an excellent way of enabling changes to be made quickly and without extensive retyping . |
| 21 | The mother herself needs to go into a kind of protective womb ; she is vulnerable , and requires care and support . |
| 22 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 23 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 24 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'd probably need to go for a week in the Bahamas afterwards , just to get over it . ’ |
| 26 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 27 | Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent . |
| 28 | Compromise is essential : ‘ If your daughter wants to go to a disco in a nearby town with friends , but you are worried about her safety , negotiate . |
| 29 | The details of this task are entrusted to the Future Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which has to cope with a flood of requests from the various Departments of State who all wish to have their proposals included . |
| 30 | And then he said , ‘ You want to come for a ride in the car ? |