Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the window he 's stepping through to wave to the crowd . |
| 2 | Zborowski said nothing but went into his room and changed into worn summer clothes and came out carrying his only winter suit parcelled up to take to the pawnbroker . |
| 3 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 4 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 5 | This allows you to make a more considered approach than a telephone call and to use the job matching list you have drawn up to bring to the employer 's attention the reasons why you are suitable for the job and why you should be seen for interview . |
| 6 | ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk . |
| 7 | You only have to look around to assent to the truth of this bitter observation : contamination is the norm , corruption is the accepted social lubricant , deceit the everyday fuel , whether in the intimacy of personal relationships or in the public arena of the affairs of state . |
| 8 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |
| 9 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 10 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 11 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 12 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 13 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 14 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 15 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 16 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 17 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 18 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 19 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 20 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 21 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 22 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 23 | Er we intended to go out to go to the garden centre I did n't do any of it . |
| 24 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 25 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 26 | ‘ After his pneumonia had been diagnosed by the Senior Surgical Officer the diagnosis was confirmed at Mr Leland 's request by the Senior Medical Officer , ’ Sister added , then broke off to explain to the night junior , a second-year , that this was routine hospital etiquette when a surgical patient produced a medical complaint , or vice versa . |
| 27 | Before running the Validation program , ensure that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up to point to the configuration file for the LIFESPAN system being checked . |
| 28 | Women suffer from male-dominated ideas about sexual attractiveness , being brought up to conform to the idea that they should be sexually attractive to men , and that sexual attractiveness is associated with the youthful , attractive bodies of the pin-up . |
| 29 | But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation : |
| 30 | First , in his evidence he referred to a better solution as being quotes , seeks a small residential setting with some other people , unquote and went on to refer to the possibility of the plaintiff entering one of the Cheshire Homes . |