Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 2 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 3 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 4 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 5 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 6 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 7 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 8 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 9 | Now that the party can no longer call on state finances , it will have to streamline its bureaucracy , and has already decided to hand back to the nation all superfluous assets , including the party 's holiday homes , hotels … and its headquarters . |
| 10 | I 'm not going to go on to the things of the brain because we are going to do them further down the list . |
| 11 | I mean we 're not going to go back to the days of the commonwealth and relying on you know , lamb from New Zealand all the time . |
| 12 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 13 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 14 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 15 | " We 're just going to trot round to the park , so follow me . |
| 16 | ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’ |
| 17 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 18 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |
| 19 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 20 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 21 | Cash 's workers did not have to go out to the sound of the factory bell or whistle , but simply went upstairs from home to workshop , and thus kept a little of the independence they prized . |
| 22 | She 'll just have to face up to the fact that he 's guilty , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 23 | Finally , the high turnover at the polls might be indicative of changes in the local population , or prudential calculations amongst particular electors as to whether it was worth one 's while trying to exercise one 's right to vote ( on the logic that people will not bother to turn up to the poll if they believe their preferred candidates have no chance of success ) ; it could equally well be indicative of various forms of electoral manipulation and influence , such as the artificial creation of new electors , the ability of returning officers to prevent one side 's supporters from polling , or the ability of some members of the local elite to " persuade " electors not to register a vote in opposition to their wishes . |
| 24 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 25 | NORTHANTS might just struggle to hold on to the NatWest trophy they won on Sunday . |
| 26 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 27 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 28 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 29 | Not have to face up to the fact that he was a dynamic , intelligent , charming man with a gift for finance and the raw exercise of power . |
| 30 | With Mike Taylor in the middle and Bill Brooker as last man , the team finally managed to traverse in to the corner from what is now Titan 's Wall . |