Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 2 | As Crick points out , however , the right idea can only fit in to a mind which is trained , and predisposed to accept that idea . |
| 3 | We could easily move on to a project exploring other aspects of Victorian England . |
| 4 | Says one critic : ‘ You can not advertise shame , ’ says one critic , ‘ and you can not walk up to a prostitute and say ‘ Hey , you , walk off the streets and join other prostitutes in farming ’ . ’ |
| 5 | It is becoming increasingly popular — why not go along to a meeting near you ? |
| 6 | It is becoming increasingly popular — why not go along to a meeting near you ? |
| 7 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 8 | Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ? |
| 9 | While what he says may not add up to a warning in the strict disciplinary sense , you should be left in no doubt about where you stand . |
| 10 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
| 11 | No one would ever go up to a man and comment on what 's in his trousers ! |
| 12 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 13 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 14 | Some museum education officers will also travel out to a school with a handling collection and conduct sessions in school . |
| 15 | Honeydew melons ripen slowly and will often keep up to a month , but smaller varieties will take less time to ripen . |
| 16 | Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms . |
| 17 | Workers need to have factual knowledge about HIV/AIDS which they can accurately pass on to a child to give the child a full picture of what is involved . |
| 18 | It is very difficult at times to say whether the clusters do really add up to a representation of the whole . |
| 19 | Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion . |
| 20 | The issue could even boil up to a climax this weekend when Bowe and his voluble manager Rock Newman are due in London to attend the BBC 's Sports Personality of the Year awards programme . |
| 21 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't go on to a talk show and talk about the plots of the books . |
| 23 | I try to babysit for different people ; sometimes I 'm so embarrassed I ca n't go back to a place . |
| 24 | My God , we ca n't go under to a shower like that — we 'll never be able to show our faces again ! ’ |
| 25 | he did n't really like it , but he had a lovely week , but at least we did n't come back to a house that 's full of |
| 26 | The theoretical difference between the categories may well come down to a question of the burden of proof , though in practice a party seeking to uphold the validity of the restrictive covenant — usually the employer — has to make all the running . |
| 27 | But , even if she could find the nerve to admit to her deception , she could n't own up to a thing — Cara was depending on her ! |
| 28 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |
| 29 | ‘ This sort of thing can actually work out to a station 's ultimate advantage if handled correctly , which it has been , since you 've shown us to be flexible and public-spirited . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries . |