Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ted Walker astonishes with his honesty , and this autobiography bubbles with sane optimism , a refusal ever to give in to the temptations of self-pity . |
| 8 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 9 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 10 | Before the honourable gentleman goes any further it would be advantage really to get back to the boundaries Mr Graham G . |
| 11 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 12 | ME AND THIS OLD FRIEND of mine are about to go out to the movies . |