Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I graduated to doing the mixed grills . |
| 2 | The animals failed to draw blood but , two weeks later , she was still so worried about getting her fingers bitten that she admitted to finding the whole business of pushing letters through a letter box as nerve-wracking , in its own way , as trying to hole a four footer . |
| 3 | She admits to touching the Black Prince , so its suitability as a weapon could well have occurred to her then . |
| 4 | Simple life Nowadays she admits to enjoying the simple pleasures in life . |
| 5 | erm , but are we committed to seeing the other three immediately or are we |
| 6 | This feedback will be used to guide us in the possible uses of the tape when we come to launching the 4th edition in early 1990 , which will be the published version of the tape . |
| 7 | That evening he devoted to discussing the agreeable question of what he should wear for his triumphant entry into London . |
| 8 | Can such an approach produce change in psychology , or is it confined to exposing the endless subtle differences between signifiers and signifieds ? |
| 9 | When it came to producing the overall figures for coal and nuclear generation in its annual reports the CEGB used a system of ‘ historic cost ’ accounting . |
| 10 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 11 | Her approach to academic seminars would seem to confirm some of the claims that she was totally out of her depth when it came to discussing the new discoveries which she had allegedly made . |
| 12 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 13 | ‘ I had no choice when it came to rescuing the helpless victim of an unknown accident . |
| 14 | A school has had a restricted spending function when it came to utilising the limited amount of money available to buy books and equipment under its capitation allowance . |
| 15 | The reason is that he began to seen the economic concepts on which the society of his time was based , such concepts as value , price , property , and above all , labour , as the nineteenth-century equivalent of religion . |
| 16 | But there was something about him which he attributed to finding the Holy Spirit . |
| 17 | It is obvious United can no longer compete when it comes to buying the best . |
| 18 | Some people are ‘ naturals ’ when it comes to helping the elderly , because they are affectionate , imaginative and capable . |
| 19 | When it comes to using the right tools for the job it is also important to realise that the final output from a desktop publishing system is not always the end product . |
| 20 | I do n't believe in any hard and fast rules when it comes to hanging the best work . |
| 21 | When it comes to handling the environmental crisis there is undoubted strength but also a flaw in the Western democratic system which has triumphed so dramatically , both ideologically and materially , at the end of the twentieth century : its political and economic well-being depends on growth and the prospect of ever-increasing wealth and improved standards of living . |
| 22 | When it comes to achieving the right weight for health , and maintaining it , some of us are going to have a far harder task than others . |
| 23 | When it comes to supporting the private sector , Scott is a vociferous and tough opponent . |
| 24 | Erm Gordon Brown is giving in , is he not to pressure from the traditionalists , when it comes to soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , he 's now saying , well maybe there will be a bit of soaking the rich , or soaking the middle class , whereas he wanted to say , and you wanted him to say , no we 're not going to do that , we moved away from that . |
| 25 | But frequently they appear to have taken leave of their senses when it comes to choosing the right sort of women . |
| 26 | I 'm sure you 'll work something out with Ian , but Sophie will have to be very careful when it comes to choosing the right person to replace you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Gabriel , when it comes to escorting the good folk up to Heaven , you point straight at the old dame . |
| 28 | The £6 billion received in farm subsidies has put Ireland very much on the side of the French and West Germans when it comes to defending the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 29 | ‘ So when it comes to paying the academic and administrative core staff of the college , when it comes to heating and lighting the buildings , ensuring their safety , maintaining the basic fabric of the place , it is the Universities Funding Council block grant which is the only money available to cover these costs . ’ |
| 30 | WHEN it comes to marketing the greatest sailing regatta in the world — the America 's Cup — the visiting nations in San Diego have beaten the host city hands down . |