Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 7 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 8 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 9 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 10 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 11 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 12 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 13 | Anyone who wants to come along to the training on Wednesday nights at Keanie Park are more than welcome . ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 20 | exactly , but who has to pay in to the contingency fund if it 's agreed by the residence ? |
| 21 | Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return . |
| 22 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 23 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 24 | But if you do , mix the ingredients well ( the bran tends to filter down to the bottom , in its dry state ) , divide into daily quantities and store in separate plastic storage bags . |
| 25 | The sense of rescue undoubtedly gives a special strain of idealization to these comments , but this seems to go back to the childhood experience rather than to be a retrospective gloss . |
| 26 | Seems to go back to the start again . |
| 27 | And that is , that it seems to look back to the writings of Darwin . |
| 28 | I refer , of course , to the discreet advertisements in the quality press , people mouthing fatuously ‘ Oh Barries ’ , when they see what shirt you 're wearing , the flyers Mercer manages to insinuate on to the information desks in some of the major London hotels , and so on and so forth . |
| 29 | When profits fails to come up to the mark , corners may be cut . |
| 30 | Therefore , if a firm engaged to write a computer program fails to measure up to the standards that would normally be expected from able computer programmers and the program turns out to be sub-standard then , prima facie , the firm will be liable in contract . |