Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 2 | It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality . |
| 3 | Well , can everyone take on board the idea now , if there are new documents being prepared or we get to a major re-issue . |
| 4 | And nothing appeals to an experienced hunter more than a wounded or somehow disabled prey . |
| 5 | ‘ My mum 's brilliant and I go to a lovely young designer called Richard Kinlock , who 's superb . |
| 6 | I thought I would go mad when you left France and I returned to an empty house . ’ |
| 7 | Er this is just one that I wanted some stuff and I said to a few people |
| 8 | My father did well in his business and I went to a good school . |
| 9 | But I always spoke English with Mum , and I went to an English school in Athens . |
| 10 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 11 | The fact of the matter is , as far as the erm and I accept to a certain degree what Jack has just said , that the power for schools lies with the Governors , and it lies with the Governors because the Conservative Government has enacted legislation to allow that to happen . |
| 12 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 13 | And I march to an unseen drum that is the metronome of an infinite host and like Thoreau , I am lifted and inspired by a music that no one else hears . |
| 14 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 15 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 16 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 17 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 18 | I asked Stephen — one of the two hapless fathers and himself reduced to a mulberry-eyed basket case — if he still had enough marbles to drive me to the station at Orvieto . |
| 19 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
| 20 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 21 | ‘ Go across the drawbridge and you come to a heavy door … |
| 22 | By using the detachment technique during the course of the regression , it is possible for the hypnotherapist to ensure that you do not suffer in any way — if , for example , you are undergoing past-life regression and you came to a painful and untimely end in an earlier life . |
| 23 | A stitch seared her side and she came to a stumbling halt , pressing her palms to the painful place , waiting until the sharp sting had eased a little . |
| 24 | We went off and we got to a steep hill , we all had to get out |
| 25 | er listen , you start at one and we get to a hundred and four |
| 26 | The monster that said ‘ Hee-haw ! ’ carried me on its back and we went to a little river . |
| 27 | ‘ We old Indians come to like this England less and less and we return to an imagined India . ’ |
| 28 | The trust provisions in section 61 draw no distinction of consequence between a declaration of trust relating to the whole deposit and one related to a defined part of a deposit . |
| 29 | How kind of you , ’ said Felicity and they agreed to a tentative appointment for the following morning . |
| 30 | Once , Swan flew higher than ever before and they came to an enormous billowing cloud that was shining in a pale golden light , and in the folds of this cloud Little Billy could make out creatures of some sort moving around . |