Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 3 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 4 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 5 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 6 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 7 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , my apologies for not being with you today and I look forward to a FANTASTIC reunion with you all at Crystal Palace in November . |
| 9 | I look forward to a comparable result for trust-status hospitals in Scotland . |
| 10 | I look forward to a positive and enthusiastic response from my right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General . |
| 11 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 12 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 13 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 14 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 15 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 16 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 17 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 18 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 19 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
| 20 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
| 21 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 22 | Do n't zoom the lens in and out , either , but save this effect for the last shot in which you zoom out to a wide view of the garden again . |
| 23 | She got off to a bad start on the streets as the child of Bruno Bonney , convicted pimp , pusher , armed robber and bilko artist . |
| 24 | I said were you looking forward to a nice pear oh you 've got them have you ? |
| 25 | She came off to a reasonable round . |
| 26 | She nodded sympathetically to a passing workman , ‘ I see the launderette was closed . ’ |
| 27 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |
| 28 | This is really , really mega-important , because if you get off to a disorganised start then you 'll find it hard to recover . |
| 29 | Reluctantly she stepped on to a moving walkway that carried her through a mishmash of exotic atmospheres . |
| 30 | Wearing a check two-piece suit and sporting a poppy on her lapel , the duchess smiled broadly as she stepped on to a red carpet . |