Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 2 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 3 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 4 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 5 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 6 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 7 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 9 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 10 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 11 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 12 | He calls Howard as soon as he arrives — but Howard has flown out to the Bahamas , for a conference with Bill Mishkin , who is stopping over on his way to Caracas . |
| 13 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 14 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 15 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 16 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 17 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
| 18 | The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex . |
| 19 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 20 | Anyone who wants to come along to the training on Wednesday nights at Keanie Park are more than welcome . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 22 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 23 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 24 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 25 | Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 . |
| 26 | ‘ This is only the second time Derry has got through to the final in 35 years , so tickets this year are like gold dust , ’ he said . |
| 27 | has sold out to the money men . |
| 28 | Despite the GLC 's lack of success with London buses and the London underground , the Labour party wants to give back to the GLC not only the buses and the underground but Network SouthEast . |
| 29 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 30 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |