Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |
| 2 | OUR quiz in the January Link seemed to appeal to the football fans amongst you . |
| 3 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 4 | ‘ The fool tried to get to the horse . |
| 5 | The Committee decided to write to the Union leaders in Washington and ask for help . |
| 6 | Cohse branch secretary Sheila Bowes said : ‘ I think it 's about time management started to listen to the nurses . |
| 7 | The woman constable went to speak to the youths , aged 16 to 19 , as they loitered in a churchyard in Guildford , Surrey . |
| 8 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 9 | She continued to go at night for his fish and chips , and on return had to submit to the smelling of her breath . |
| 10 | In the mistaken belief that Jim Hall intended to sail to the United States , Fitzsimmons embarked for San Francisco in 1890 , with the intention of fighting a return match . |
| 11 | This helper first massages the feet of the subject , then the head , and finally guides him or her through a mental exercise intended to lead to the regression itself . |
| 12 | The military failed to respond to the offer . |
| 13 | This came about partly because of the executive 's inherent advantages , as outlined above , and partly because tradition and crisis seemed to point to the need for a strong executive . |
| 14 | The acquisition of a skeleton of calcium phosphate marked the point at which the fossil record began to contribute to the history of the group which , from our selfish viewpoint , we are conditioned to think of lying at the pinnacle of all evolutionary trees . |
| 15 | However , the Khmers Rouges opposed the Sihanouk-Hun Sen arrangement , arguing that the SOC had to agree to the UN plan in full . |
| 16 | A chance mention in a letter written in the 820s shows that one card in a Carolingian king 's hand was the existence of a " solemn custom " whereby any recipient of a benefice had to come to the palace in person and ritually " commend " himself to the king . |
| 17 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 18 | Society for him , as for Durkheim , was an organism of which each constituent part existed to contribute to the well-being of the whole . |
| 19 | The occasion seemed to get to the Aussies then , and this time there will be a 78,000 full house to worry them . |
| 20 | Moderation and reasonableness began to come to the fore . |
| 21 | The kitten had to go to the vet three times in as many weeks and was more expensive than the baby . |
| 22 | The court refused to accede to the appellant 's argument that the fact that the restraint was contained in a mortgage deed excluded the application of the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 23 | CAR demand failed to respond to the Budget boost last month and , with election uncertainty now affecting business , manufacturers are pessimistic about the outlook and are cutting sales forecasts . |
| 24 | CAR sales last month failed to respond to the Budget tax cuts but Ford has retained its market leadership while falling short of its objective of a 30 p.c. share . |
| 25 | In agriculture , the popular movement began to respond to the kind of difficulties that farmers like those in Zubaydat had encountered . |
| 26 | In fact , if every Briton decided to go to the seaside on the same day there would be only four inches of sand per person ! |
| 27 | Auque 's news appeared to point to the fact that John was being held by an Iranian-backed group , and in March Hashemi Rafsanjani called a news conference in Tehran during which he repeated his request that Britain should help locate the missing Iranians in Beirut if it wanted Iran to help with the British hostages . |
| 28 | The captain had to certify to the Port of Havana medical officer that no-one on board was ‘ an idiot , or insane , or suffering from a loathsome or contagious disease ’ . |
| 29 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 30 | When the Housing Corporation refused to contribute to the cost of these features , the HBC relaxed its general policy of contributing only 50 per cent of the cost of eligible items and met the full cost . |