Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I personally like to idea of meetings like this , both because of the element of local co-operation and also because we can hear the views of other people , railway sympathisers rather than railway enthusiasts perhaps , on how railways fit into the scene . |
| 2 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 3 | I just went to bed for a sleep ’ , he revealed . |
| 4 | I just go to bed at night and hope for a miracle that I 'll get up in the morning |
| 5 | And I just have to go to or I just have to sort of explain that when you pack a van , you do n't pack it like the advert for KitKat . |
| 6 | In his half-yearly report to Congress on Feb. 21 Greenspan reported guarded optimism about avoiding recession , but he reaffirmed that while concern for inflation persisted interest rates would remain high . |
| 7 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 8 | I always go to bed before Tony . |
| 9 | If I 'm in port on a Sunday I always go to church at Tala-Tala . ’ |
| 10 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 11 | I used to read to the family , and pray with them in the evening , and then I usually went to bed at nine o'clock . |
| 12 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 13 | I never go to sleep with food in my stomach . |
| 14 | I never go to bed with the people I love . |
| 15 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 18 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 19 | The legality of money market dealings by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London , which once amounted to exposure of £5bn is being challenged by its auditor , Anthony Hazell , a partner in Deloitte Haskins and Sells , with the support of the Audit Commission , the local authority financial watchdog . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A scent on a tree stump or lamp-post may distract a dog which happily walks to heel around the garden . |
| 22 | Although the evidence from laboratory studies is sometimes equivocal , the general principles which actually apply to performance of complex tasks in real life appear to be relatively clear . |
| 23 | You only go to prison for stealing and things like that . ’ |
| 24 | For those of us who only went to church for weddings , christenings , funerals and compulsory church parades , it was usually C of E ( Church of England ) . |
| 25 | Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ? |
| 26 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 27 | Or if you just want to sort of signify a , a quick thank you to someone . |
| 28 | For my benefit would you just like to sort of give me a quick rattle through as as as to what you intend to do . |
| 29 | Well I would have thought so but really erm I think you just need to sort of |
| 30 | How many in the class have a parent who normally travels to work by car , bus or train to another town , or several kilometres across a city ? |