Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | For this is the Tetley Bitterworld of BIVOUAC , slightly inbred young Middle Englanders who would much rather plod their way to the top than dance with Nirvana , learns KEITH ‘ Plodcore ’ CAMERON . |
2 | During the afternoon , Mr. Penny would somewhat unsteadily make his way to the trap , get in , flop down and lightly pick up the reins ; the pony knowing what had to be done would start off , quickly breaking into a spanking trot as he made his way along Milford Street . |
3 | Preventing dental and gum disease will not only make your visits to the dentist more pleasant , but will mean that your mouth feels fresher and you can have a bright smile . |
4 | Owners of domestic dogs do not normally expect their pets to be out hunting prey , bringing it down and killing it , in the same fashion as their wild cousins — the wolf on the Arctic Tundra or the Cape hunting dog of the African Serengeti . |
5 | We do not always put our assumptions to the test . |
6 | If I run a company badly , however , the market does not gradually transfer its management to someone else ; it leaves me with the monopoly of corporate control until , at the consummation of a take-over bid , it transfers it abruptly and completely ’ . |
7 | Such a predicament would be a cue for utter bewilderment or terror in Pynchon , whose characters can not reliably communicate their fears to anyone else but , in Sabbatical , the reaction is a joint decision : ‘ we must shorten scope on both our paranoia and our writerly sense of plot ’ ( Barth 1983 : 53 ) . |
8 | ‘ If your husband is glancing sideways at younger women , your elderly parents are driving you mad and your daughter looks now how you would like to look , HRT will not magically put your world to rights . |
9 | And who in the world would not readily sign their names to such an object ? |
10 | Those who did not either put their mills to other uses or left the trade . |
11 | The trial judge held that the bank manager , in whose presence the wife executed the charge , did not adequately explain its effect to her . |
12 | He says it 's the thin end of the wedge and once they ban motorised vehicles , they 'll probably then turn their attention to cyclists and horse-riders — and obviously we like using the Ridgeway . |
13 | Legislation is interpreted by the judiciary and perhaps lawyers at least should now also turn their attention to the form and style of judgments . |
14 | However , we do n't just want your answers to our questions ; we also want your ideas , so please answer the final question . |
15 | As they continue to fight their pop past PAUL BYRNE ! asks Mark Hollis whether they should n't just change their name to Whisper Whisper ? |
16 | And 40 years ago you — or rather your semi-erect ancestors — were asking us why we did n't just change our name to New Accordion Express . |
17 | I suppose there 's always nutters about , but there is something special about the band , and I do n't just mean their liability to lawsuits . |
18 | Omitting the scanning side means you can only fax things you can produce on a PC 's screen — you could n't easily add your signature to a letter , for instance . |
19 | I did n't really send your photo to Riga . |
20 | Its applicability to the eighteenth-century novel seems , on the other hand , to be less questionable , and one can equally well see its relevance to twentieth-century writers like John Fowles . |
21 | He is ‘ a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face , and with very grey hair disordered on his head , as if he did n't quite see his way to putting anything straight ’ , but kind and honest . |
22 | This is one machine that will quite easily fight its way to the top of the £300 pile ; lend it your ears . |
23 | Let's then just turn our attention to the facilities in this country , the sort of things you 've heard Stan saying here in the studio that there 's a lot to offer in this country , lot 's of different kinds of scenery , lot 's of different types of attractions , but let's just take a look at the sort of facilities that are available in this country . |
24 | But I could no longer bear my life to be shrouded in the Guérigny grief . |
25 | The government can no longer close its eyes to the health facts . |
26 | Sufferers from the family disease can no more control their addiction to " self-denial " and " caretaking " by themselves than any primary sufferer can control his or her use of the substance or behaviour of addiction in the absence of support from the Anonymous Fellowships . |
27 | God can no more transfer his sinlessness to us than we can transfer our rights or wrongs to one another . |
28 | I will never ever leave my players to their own devices . |
29 | I will never ever leave my players to their own devices . |