Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 5 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 6 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 7 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 8 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
| 14 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She got off to a bad start on the streets as the child of Bruno Bonney , convicted pimp , pusher , armed robber and bilko artist . |
| 17 | She came off to a reasonable round . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is really , really mega-important , because if you get off to a disorganised start then you 'll find it hard to recover . |
| 20 | Reluctantly she stepped on to a moving walkway that carried her through a mishmash of exotic atmospheres . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 23 | She reached up to a yellow tin of tobacco on one of the shelves . |
| 24 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 25 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 26 | So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing . |
| 27 | She had the technique for the role — she sang up to a high F if necessary and could cope very well with the low undertones Salome has — and she had what is most important : a real erotic appeal in the voice . |
| 28 | However , if you go back to a lengthy program after a couple of months you will find it very difficult to understand if you have not included any REMs . |
| 29 | If you go along to a good quality golf course they have the score card a planner but they also have a little script that tells you about the hole . |
| 30 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |