Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now intend to go back to their original preferred scheme for a twice weekly market in nearby pedestrianised Station Road . |
| 2 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
| 3 | I do not believe in a nuclear civil war in the Soviet Union — I think that Nazarbaev and Krawczuk want to hang on to their nuclear weapons as a defence against a Russian attack . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 5 | Religions frequently fail to live up to their high moral standards . |
| 6 | Under these conditions , however good the heuristic estimate , the algorithm will keep abandoning paths that fail to live up to their initial promise in favour of untried paths that are promising a little more than they will deliver ( Pearl 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Others have slipped back to their old ways . |
| 8 | It is an agreement to which our European partners were happy to sign up , and they have gone back to their own countries to celebrate . |