Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 2 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 3 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 4 | With a very limited manufacturing base and agricultural production of foodstuffs insufficient to feed the country , Zambia became highly exposed to the vagaries of international markets . |
| 5 | I remember the boy rose once to go to the bathroom , his thin , adolescent frame weaving in pain . |
| 6 | In order to make this facility useful , it is recommended that an organisation-wide policy be adopted ; e.g. ‘ Errors reported always apply to the module which first detects the error , not the reporting module ’ . |
| 7 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 8 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 9 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 10 | But if we 're not wanted , you 'd better talk to the chief . |
| 11 | Anyway , I suppose I 'd better go to the surgery , if I must see him . ’ |
| 12 | " I think I 'd better go to the loo , " she said , then looked at him . |
| 13 | tablets are finished , I 'd better go to the doc |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd better go to the zoo and live with the animals . |
| 15 | I 'd better go to the embassy to check if anything 's actually happened today . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd better go to the doctor , ’ said Apricot . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better come to the flat with me for a start , as soon as the warrant arrives . |
| 18 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
| 19 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 20 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 21 | And you 'd best go to the toilet before you leave . |
| 22 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 23 | He 'd always gone to the fields long before Edward was up for school , but today he was still wrapping his lunchtime bread and cheese in a cloth . |
| 24 | Denny Beresford , chairman of FASB , added further support to the view that the US is more strongly involved than ever in international financial reporting issues , while Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , emphasised industry 's pressing need for effective harmonisation . |
| 25 | There were the papers produced by the political groups , but they seemed fatally restricted to the obsessions of other times , and to backbiting amongst themselves . |
| 26 | If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk . |
| 27 | The mucosa was examined and lesions scored macroscopically according to the presence of petechiae or necrotic mucosa ( Table II ) . |
| 28 | DIPLOMATIC niceties have been exploited to the utmost during the continuing occupation by would-be East German emigrants of the West German embassy in Prague , where a West German diplomat yesterday intervened dramatically to add to the number of new arrivals inside . |
| 29 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 30 | So people who 'd either gone to the football or |