Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 2 | Most of them looked forward to an administrative career in the service of a lord , whether pope , king , bishop or earl . |
| 3 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 4 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 5 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 6 | It would be a waste of time for both of you to go on to an interview . |
| 7 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's like you get on to a list , ’ he suggests with a smile . |
| 9 | SCHOOLBOY Neil Aspden has put the horrors of a vicious assault behind him to look forward to a Christmas of a lifetime . |
| 10 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 11 | Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will . |
| 12 | At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda . |
| 13 | The one good thing was the Australian pair finally making up their minds to come , the wife 's partners having agreed to her taking up to a year 's sabbatical . |
| 14 | Yeah they , they erm when you switch the teletext on it comes on to a hundred , that 's the thing , and , and , and on that a hundred they 'll give you er news one O two or whatever it is , you know , and so on . |
| 15 | It is hard for us to communicate back to a horse with body language , but we can simulate some of the horse 's actions . |