Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered if Rufus had children and if so did he worry about them coming to terrible harm the way Adam worried ? |
| 2 | While long-standing fans either relished it or waited patiently for them to return to straightforward indie pop , more than a few older folk fans switched on the enigma of The Wedding Present . |
| 3 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 4 | ‘ It would hardly be proper for them to speak to such women . |
| 5 | A broad interpretation of what it means would greatly expand the number of crimes for which access to legal advice could be delayed . |
| 6 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 7 | They were found in 16% of 98 children who had completed a course of sclerotherapy , all of whom responded to simple dilatation . |
| 8 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 9 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 10 | Most of them stick to one corner . |
| 11 | Clinically , an acute self limiting obstructive condition was evident in 13 cases with AA , and 12 of them returned to normal bowel function after receiving total parenteral nutrition . |
| 12 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 13 | So , when they had finished their ward round , the two of them went to each patient in turn and inquired tactfully whether they ate earth . |
| 14 | About half of them went to British colonies , mainly to the sugar islands , and the rest were sold in other colonies in the Americas . |
| 15 | Of all the animals that sham dead it is the snakes that are the star performers , some of them going to amazing lengths to convince their assailants that they are truly deceased . |
| 16 | They form a group in the courtyard , some of them talking to each other , some walking up and down , one chatting to the policeman at the gate . |
| 17 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 18 | Yorkshire , in common with East Anglia , has an ever-growing number of memorials , many of them dedicated to Canadian squadrons of Bomber Command . |
| 19 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 20 | There are two or three strange things in there which , while hardly melodies , might qualify as tunes , several of them coming to satisfactory conclusions . |
| 21 | So I ca n't see very many of them coming to local people . |
| 22 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 23 | The term ‘ house churches ’ is applied to a variety of congregations , Some of them belong to organised groupings , but all are characterised by a common emphasis on the dynamic activity of the Holy Spirit in the lives of their members . |
| 24 | In 1932 there were violent demonstrations , several of them leading to serious riots . |
| 25 | While the booksellers were looking at his books he would quietly nick a few of theirs to sell to another shop . |
| 26 | The figures showed assets of 638,364 million roubles , backed by over 374 tonnes of gold , but the bank was said to be overburdened with credit of 462,060 million roubles to union and republican finance ministries ( only 23,646 million roubles of which went to republican ministries ) . |
| 27 | Between 1974 and 1979 , for example , the Department of Industry allocated about £250 million in regional assistance to Merseyside — almost all of which went to green-field locations ( Nabarro , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | But recurrent harvest failures , the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891 , imposed severe hardship on many . |
| 29 | A wealth of legends and folk tales has been recorded , much of which relates to particular sites in the countryside . |
| 30 | Keith John Moore , one of the firm 's partners , has appeared before the Disciplinary Committee on three previous occasions to answer allegations , two of which related to other rock bands . |