Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 2 | ‘ The trouble is they 'll send for him when he is eighteen , and we were hoping he 'd win a scholarship to go on to University . |
| 3 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 4 | But it was beautiful for all that , Lindsey decided , leaning against a wall to stare out to sea . |
| 5 | It was a relief to get back to Casualty , and another to recollect Old Red 's coming holiday . |
| 6 | Even the sun was in a hurry to get back to Sandwich that Sunday . |
| 7 | have a purpose to go out to work . |