Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 2 | His willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate makes Neil Kinnock look like a beacon of moral and political rectitude . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 4 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 5 | I 'll have a police chopper waiting at Frankfurt Airport to fly you to the nearest airfield . ’ |
| 6 | I truly did mean just to ride him to the nearest hamlet . |
| 7 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 8 | She could borrow the grey , using its strength to get her to the nearest village . |
| 9 | They set up the mills to husk the rice and charter the ships to transport it to the best markets — then sit back . |
| 10 | Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there . |
| 11 | The parents of children found to be suffering from any illness at a fieldworker 's visit were advised to take them to the nearest health facility for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be better , mademoiselle , for me to take you to the nearest syndicat d'initiative . |
| 13 | Perhaps she could ring for a taxi , to take her to the nearest station ? |
| 14 | You are going to need to buy some bathroom scales if you have n't got any , or if the ones you have got are n't accurate , because each day you are going to weight yourself to the nearest pound ( 0.5kg ) . |