Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 2 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 3 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 4 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 5 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 6 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 7 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 8 | For organizations and clubs first timing it in this area Kinloss Canoe Club can always provide an experienced canoeist guide ( usually an instructor ) to join your flotilla and paddle along to give up to the minute on the spot information , or if you wish , to lead on the water , all at not cost , especially on the Findhorn . |
| 9 | After a week together , Jakki flew back to Britain in floods of tears , only to fly back to the States again three days later to interview Madonna . |
| 10 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 11 | The loss of that money is resented by at least one member of the England Committee , who told me : ‘ Our football in Sweden was the worst in my lifetime , but we should be strong enough to face up to the situation . |
| 12 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 13 | Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval . |
| 14 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 15 | Having tried unsuccessfully to reach him through his office — he edits a weekly newspaper for veterans of the wartime resistance — I decided finally to drive out to the village of Roztoky where he spends much of his time . |
| 16 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 17 | John had asked her not to go up to the loft . |
| 18 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 19 | This is a time to go forward with conviction and confidence , not to go back to the failure and bitter controversies of the past . |
| 20 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 21 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 22 | And I 'm really being enormously selfish at this moment , because what I want is not Richard fussing around — and he does fuss , you know — but just to go back to the terrace and have tea . |
| 23 | The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take . |
| 24 | There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons . |
| 25 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 26 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 27 | Mr Wilson said last night that they had talked to a lot of the villagers and were determined not to give in to the vandals . |
| 28 | No other man had ever managed even to light a spark within her , yet he had set her body aflame , and it had taken every ounce of will-power she possessed not to give in to the longing he 'd unleashed . |
| 29 | As the carriage rolled down the driveway , Emily looked straight ahead , holding herself erect , determined not to give in to the tears that threatened to overflow . |
| 30 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |