Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments given above when taken together seem to lead to a contradiction . |
| 2 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |
| 3 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 4 | The judge had warned the jury not to award " Mickey Mouse money " , by which he apparently intended to refer to a sum so large as to be unrealistic ( such as 1.5 million ) . |
| 5 | He used to say that he did not want to listen to a man like Beethoven , whose stormy music told his hearers all about himself and his troubles , but rather to hear the pure beauty of musical form , which so far as he was concerned reached its acme in Mozart 's classical perfection . |
| 6 | I do not want to return to a world in which the lights go out , there is no money in the country , we have to turn to the International Monetary Fund , and investment in the leading industries has to be cut back . |
| 7 | The work force want to return to a contract and yet do not want to return to a situation which takes away from their individual freedom and negotiating rights . |
| 8 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 9 | More recently some Universities and Polytechnics developed courses for ethnic minorities — but these when they were focused on developing multilingual skills were not intended to lead to a specialism in minority languages but simply to serve support strategies which fall far short of teaching the languages as such . |
| 10 | A MOTHER lost her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against corporal punishment in school yesterday , but the judgment is not expected to lead to a reintroduction of that form of disciplinary action in Britain . |
| 11 | The issue is not expected to go to a vote . |
| 12 | As the great surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt , artists and public were apparently offered two choices : either to celebrate postmodern confusion , or to turn back to older and more insular traditions . |
| 13 | ‘ And I tell you frankly that in my opinion one must not hesitate to go to a prostitute occasionally if there is one you can trust and feel something for … . |
| 14 | Sean had no where to go because he was not going to go to a friend 's house as he was not ready to face up to people he knew . |
| 15 | which we did , and I 'm pleased to say that they endorsed that that general position , in other words their not going to come to a conclusion whether or not they should take any part in the proceedings , whether they should intervene or seek to stop the project until much later in the day . |
| 16 | Notice that the term semantic constituent is not used to refer to a meaning only , but to a form-plus-meaning complex ; that is to say , a semantic constituent is a meaningful form ( the precise sense of meaningful intended here will be clarified below ) with a determinate grammatical function . |
| 17 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 18 | He just had to get to a table in the restaurant and sit down . |
| 19 | He never married , and had led a very healthy life which caused him to have over-confidence in his constitution and thus neglected to go to a physician at the onset of a serious illness , until it was too late . |
| 20 | I have still not managed to get to a meet ! |
| 21 | Bereaved pet owners no longer have to go to a cemetery to give their cat or dog a loving send off . |
| 22 | This could have frightening implications , both political and economic , for Germany , which has done more to try to help Russia than any other European state , providing $40 billion in loans , half her external debt , and for the Eastern European countries which are still struggling to convert to a market economy . |
| 23 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 24 | ‘ I just hope neither of you ever has to turn to a life of crime . |
| 25 | Do you What do you do do you know if erm if you ever want to get to a phone to see a doctor or wh to get to a the doctor |
| 26 | Police are still waiting to talk to a jeweller who was stabbed during a robbery at his shop . |
| 27 | What are the girls , other , that we 've always wanted to invite to a party and we have n't bothered before ? |
| 28 | And to be honest , for questions like this , I usually have to refer to a book for an answer ! |
| 29 | He was asked shy he had joined the team : ‘ Because I always wanted to get to a press conference like this , ’ he growled . |
| 30 | To protect themselves they also determined to withdraw to a monastery . |