Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to war " in BNC.

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1	As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business .
2	After all , the country does not go to war all that often , even if it is with a second-rate corned-beef republic .
3	He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance .
4	These two will now go to war with one another ’ .
5	‘ They did n't go to war , not abroad . ’
6	The rhetoric of politicians was littered with idealistic assumptions , from the ‘ new thinking ’ of President Gorbachev to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's assertion that ‘ democracies do n't go to war with each other ’ .
7	Is it true that liberal democracies ‘ do n't go to war with one another ’ ?
8	So during the war , he did n't , he did n't go to war , he stayed at home erm , you know , he worked at , in like food and , and so they were
9	Well he , he did n't really say a lot , er they asked him a question and er he , he just turned round and said er we hope , we hope it 's er a peaceful solution , that er virtually saying he hoped it did n't come to war , and Christine turned round and said ‘ yes we want a peaceful solution ’ .
10	Around the same time Churchill was remarking that he would happily go to war with Egypt .
11	As a good friend of mine once commented , ‘ If man could only see his aura , he would never go to war . ’
12	It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again .

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