Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No messenger of his ever went to Rome in the early years of Henry I 's reign without pressing for a papal confirmation of Canterbury 's primacy . |
| 2 | I almost went to pieces in that room . |
| 3 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 4 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 5 | In restructuring the museum , we have concentrated on three areas , which also correspond to stages in the museum 's historical development . |
| 6 | The leading members of the Comintern Affiliation Committee , who eventually went to Moscow in 1935 , were suspended from membership of the ILP . |
| 7 | But she still goes to school in Soweto — a journey of two-and-a-half hours each way by train and bus . |
| 8 | For some reason ( probably ignorance of the comic art ) Will Hay , the majestic Thirties comedian who also went to school in Stockton was overlooked by the Academy . |
| 9 | The really bright ones would become genuine leaders , and the drop-outs , who notoriously contributed to agitation in other tribes , would be ‘ sucked into the vortex of conservatism ’ and be indistinguishable from their uneducated fellows . |
| 10 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 11 | She also travelled to Japan in January to compete in a half-marathon and came very close to beating McColgan 's world record of 67:11 , Meyer winning the race in 67:22 . |
| 12 | Chief among its descendants , who originally emigrated to America in the mid-17th century , were Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee , who were distantly related through the Isham line . |
| 13 | David ‘ Syd ’ Lawrence , who recently returned to bowling in the nets after his horrific knee injury in New Zealand , has been awarded a benefit by Gloucestershire in 1993 . |
| 14 | We usually go to London in the winter but the house is having alterations done to it so we ca n't . |
| 15 | One often goes to extremes in order to arrive at a physical configuration that is mathematically soluble by simple means . |
| 16 | If the speaker is lying , for instance , it may be that what caused his utterance was something quite opposed to belief in what he meant to say , or a favourable attitude towards what his utterance was meant to commend . |
| 17 | We hastily put to sea in deteriorating weather conditions , the freshening easterly wind pushing up a lumpy swell for which this area is notorious . |
| 18 | But then there are a lot of wedding fairs and it 's in the end you know , brides I mean there ca n't be any keener than brides , they just go to extremes in their preparation . |
| 19 | Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers had 21 winners as they just lost to Liverpool in the Woolworths Young Athletes Northern Premier League fixture at York . |
| 20 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 21 | As penal aims , they both led to injustice in retributive terms . |
| 22 | However , they increasingly returned to work in both the public and private sectors once their children were in school , but tended to do so part-time ( see Manley and Sawbridge , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 24 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 25 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |
| 26 | It finally agreed to changes in the Data sheet in June 1982 , shortly before escalating concern among doctors forced the withdrawal of the drug altogether . |
| 27 | Basil would get very excited at finding tadpoles and caddis worms in the Hampstead ponds but though he once took to fishing in a small stream when we were on holiday , and actually caught a small fish , which Marion cooked for his tea , he was quite unable to eat it , being stricken with remorse at its demise . |
| 28 | It also gets to 60mph in 5.9secs and is artificially restricted to 157mph . |
| 29 | He also referred to provisions in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers , and to many other provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 and in the Companies Act 1985 which might conceivably have some bearing on this question . |
| 30 | He probably went to England in 1709 , though his life before his publishing career began in 1734 is obscure . |