Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only got to do it to the end of today so , I do n't think I 'm going to use twenty do you ? |
| 2 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 3 | The amateur radio enthusiast is quoted as saying he considered destroying the tape but eventually decided to hand it to The Sun . |
| 4 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 5 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
| 6 | The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis . |
| 7 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 8 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 9 | However , this is not intended to condemn us to the conclusion that changes in society are the chance results of unrelated factors . |
| 10 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 11 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We have a certain operation ahead of us and we would not like to disclose it to the press , ’ team leader Nikita Smidovitch said in Manama last night , hours before a UN plane was to fly to Baghdad . |
| 13 | They are not going to do anything to the rights of way in spite of what they are being asked to do by the |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 15 | I was now twenty metres up in the air , and I desperately hoped he would not decide to throw me to the ground . |
| 16 | I must not forget to say something to the whole school about her . ’ |
| 17 | Although Thomas felt her husband had been stupid to bring a woman like this to the planet , he did not intend to abandon her to the mercy of the hostile environment and the murderous shapechanger . |
| 18 | In the triples , the Prestwick side saw a great fightback just fail to take them to the final . |
| 19 | but then again I 'd rather just let them get on with it I 'm not trying to convert you to the better way of doing things , cos obviously I do n't know a whether there 's |
| 20 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |
| 21 | Teacher training institutions therefore still need to address themselves to the issues outlined in the survey : |
| 22 | ‘ Probably hoping to make it to the States in some way . |
| 23 | Their visits to the Expo became less frequent , Fernando now wishing to introduce her to the romance of Seville itself . |
| 24 | Of the reasons why females so often fail to make it to the very top , two are basic : some of the best women managers do not achieve their full potential in business because they do not know how exceptional they are , and others fail to get a boardroom seat because they lack the confidence . |
| 25 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 26 | Gloria did n't pause to say anything to the cheery porter at the gates , nor did he call out to them . |
| 27 | He immediately began to help himself to the food . |
| 28 | Mr Browne had a gerbil in a cage in the classroom , but we were n't allowed to take it to the dorms — it had to stay in the classroom . |
| 29 | Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final . |
| 30 | We can then proceed to apply them to the work on literacy that we have been examining . |