Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 2 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 3 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd pay the going rate , and provide a car to enable you to get around to the various stores and liaise with curtain-makers and such . ’ |
| 7 | The Gib'Sea family of yachts allow you to move up to a larger craft as your requirements progress — you can select from the comprehensive range , 24′ to 52′ , while remaining loyal to a marque you can trust . |
| 8 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 9 | Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe . |
| 10 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 11 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 12 | For one moment he hesitated , provoking her to give in to the gentle malice which settled inside her . |
| 13 | It has become agony for her to live up to the manufactured image of America 's favourite grandmother . |
| 14 | It was an insult : they did n't need white nannies — did more than two black people in a room constitute a riot ? -were they to step back to the old plantation days ? — had Kinnock and Hattersley been drunk when they drafted the proposal ? |
| 15 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 16 | She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan . |
| 17 | There is a strong argument er for us to revert back to the previous legal state of affairs in which the anonymity was preserved both of the complainant and of the defendant . |
| 18 | The summit may be an opportunity — I know that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is encouraging other Heads of State to attend it — that will enable us to put over to the British population the need to recognise that there is a balance , an interdependence and a need for the transfer of resources . |
| 19 | 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 . |