Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun prp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjectively , Baldwin felt committed to MacDonald for several reasons . |
| 2 | ‘ People have come to Britain from many lands , ’ he boomed , ‘ and today the country is a melting-pot ! |
| 3 | Doris was always coming weeping and shrieking to Mavis in those days , saying he 'd be the death of her , and meanwhile Fred would reel down the cellar steps and visit the tarts for consolation . |
| 4 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 5 | If you assume — as the Treasury does — that little of the original $128m debt owed to America by these countries would have been recovered anyway , this will cost the Treasury , over three years , the princely sum of $11m . |
| 6 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 7 | Instead of just , going to Tescos for some groceries or |
| 8 | When he was seventeen he returned to China for several months . |
| 9 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 10 | When Peter got it so resoundingly wrong at Caesarea Philippi in telling Jesus not to go to Jerusalem under any circumstances , he received the rebuke to end all rebukes : ‘ Out of my sight , Satan ! ’ |
| 11 | My father had first er he had , him being an engineer , and had been working in Glasgow after his er having served his apprenticeship at Amos the , it was the thing to go to Glasgow in these days which was the centre of all engineering activity , and er to gain experience he went to Glasgow . |
| 12 | ‘ No , there 's this beautiful Leningrad actress who went to Rome for several months . |
| 13 | And we went to Frinton of all places and you could go to the chippie and get fish and chips and everything . |
| 14 | He is able to refer to God by such names as Rāma and K a , which are specifically Hindu names , and as Ahuramazda , which is the Zoroastrian name for the God of light . |
| 15 | I can now go to Nepal for several weeks with a 12kg rucksack and only one or two things ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 16 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 17 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 18 | The effect is that the vendor must account to Newco for any deductions it receives from Customs , and Newco must indemnify the vendor for any payments due to Customs . |
| 19 | When The Marriage of Figaro begins , the count has been married to Rosina for several years , and is beginning to tire of her . |