Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to go down to the police station . |
| 2 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 3 | Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
| 4 | They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . |
| 5 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 6 | Using other kinds of evidence , we must move out to the localities , and the counties . |
| 7 | In his absence , the Socialists gave him an ultimatum : he should hand over to the Communists . |
| 8 | , ’ If the quotation is a common one you could acknowledge this fact but turn it into a plus , ‘ We all know the lovely poem by John Masefield , which you can never tire of hearing , ( Pause ) ‘ I must go down to the seas |
| 9 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |
| 10 | For the source of this we must go back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC , whose cosmological speculations were based on the ‘ tetracys ’ , that is , the geometrical symbol composed of ten discrete points symmetrically arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle with sides of four points each . |
| 11 | The Government , he says , must go back to the days when school meals were available for every child . |
| 12 | Later , when Anne was in bed , Marilla said to her brother , ‘ She must go back to the children 's home tomorrow . ’ |
| 13 | She must get back to The Tamarisks . |
| 14 | However , you should point out to the parents any overlap between problems . |
| 15 | After one alarmed glance at her apoplectic face , Mr Loveitt said smoothly : ‘ I think we should get back to the facts . |
| 16 | Instead of being critical , adversarial or even sceptical , the media should bow down to the needs of the country so as to encourage development across all sectors . |
| 17 | ‘ You keep the paper , I 'll haud on to the cigars . ’ |
| 18 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 19 | It explained the problems although we were a bit — we 'll go on to the cons in a minute . |
| 20 | He was saying , ‘ Now we 'll go over to the bees , ’ and he went over and they were all lying at the bottom . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll go out to the fields for a few hours to try to work off some of this . ’ |
| 22 | And he would go away , he would n't say , Come on we 'll go down to the cleaners and tell them , he would go away himself you see . |
| 23 | He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll walk back to the stables with you , ’ she suggested . |
| 25 | You bring him back tomorrow or I 'll get on to the police . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll take Lady Lassiter home , men , and then I 'll come down to the buildings . |
| 27 | Across the Bristol Channel we could see over to the cliffs of North Devon , while off to the west Carmarthen Bay and the Pembrokeshire coast stretched out into the distance . |
| 28 | This is the finest war memorial you could set up to the men who gave their lives , their limbs , or their health , and those who lost their dear ones in the country 's cause . |
| 29 | We could walk round to the stables , if you do not object to it — I can vouch for it that the grass is not wet — and then perhaps Miss Araminta will not hear as the horses will not come to the front door . ’ |
| 30 | thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council . |