Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony and I reckon that when Matt goes to heaven he 'll have his nose in an Ordnance Survey Map and he 'll be saying , " If I remember rightly there should be an old bloke around here with long grey hair and a grey beard and a long white nightie on . |
| 2 | The Labour Party ‘ power hoggers ’ David Marquand refers to will strongly resist this approach , as being marginal to the real issues . |
| 3 | An optimum path can be selected and other activities adjusted to phase in with those on this ‘ critical path ’ . |
| 4 | Sadly , the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison . |
| 5 | They spent a night being monitored by infra-red cameras and many hours submitting to psychotherapy . |
| 6 | Gummer goes to Environment |
| 7 | Traditionally , these patterns repeat to infinity ; Makhoul sometimes underlines this by not filling in some areas completely , as if the picture could be carried on indefinitely . |
| 8 | Traditionally , these patterns repeat to infinity . |
| 9 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 10 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 11 | well at , at , at the moment our , our defence of course goes to case , the defence by |
| 12 | The characteristics of these adjectives correspond to occurrence in the underlined position of the structure in ( 21 ) where the verb and the adjective are immediately bound together to form a complex property-nucleus which then enters into construction with the object : ( 21 ) |
| 13 | The views correspond to relative versus absolute wealth reduction and the implied rates can be seen from Table 12–6 and guessed easily . |
| 14 | The Central Statistical Office reported that its longer leading index of economic activity continued to suggest hat the economy turned last summer while its shorter index points to recovery at the end of last year . |
| 15 | A model adhesion cascade has been proposed to explain adhesion of many leukocyte subtypes to endothelium ( reviewed in refs 2 , 3 , 31 , 32 ) . |
| 16 | One two three four five six not yet seven eight nine no no ten eleven twelve wait thirteen fourteen no ! fifteen not yet ! sixteen wait , wait , wait seventeen wait ! seventeen seventeen eighteen no use nineteen the stuff was Co-ming ! twent — I must have shouted out at that precise moment where exultation turns to disgust , the moment of spilling , of defilement . |
| 17 | His wife Kathy , who organised the walk , admits that Ian goes to hell and back on the walks . |
| 18 | These can include advisory services for businesses — support for local enterprise centres , such as the support given to Work West for its business information service based at the workshop on the Glen Road — enterprise awareness training and exhibitions and support for courses , such as the Women and Enterprise programme run by Work West . |
| 19 | He did not have mother 's shrewdness , nor her education , and lacked the family support given to mother by her parents . |
| 20 | And now , perforce , The Economist turns to speculation . |
| 21 | Jenkins admitted to ignorance , but covered himself by saying that the selectors did not know the team either . |
| 22 | Secondly , the moment the decision to go to war was taken in Washington in November , the UN really faded out of the picture . |
| 23 | He also expressed " deep remorse over the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted " by its " reckless " decision to go to war with the USA . |
| 24 | This was not quite a final decision to go to war , but when allied ships under Admiral Codrington moved into Navarino Bay on the south-western edge of the Peloponnese in October 1827 and , without having set out to do so , destroyed the fleet of the Sultan 's Egyptian forces , war became inevitable . |
| 25 | I would also actually suggest that again if you wanted to ease it a bit I 'd pick up a point also made just now er in that P P G refers to building and the E two refers to development . |
| 26 | It 's ( more or less ) official : Ken Olsen was pushed into resigning by the board : the Wall Street Journal hears of a meeting with employees at which Olsen discussed how he was unable to make the necessary organisational changes at DEC , in particular failing to get engineering groups to report to marketing , and then said ‘ that 's why I was fired ’ . |
| 27 | A total of 94 riders remain in the race with four stages to go.Two dropped out yesterday , Australian Rob McLachlan submitting to flu and South African Steven Wolhuter being admitted to Shrewsbury Hospital for a check-up though he was released later . |
| 28 | The term formative assessment refers to assessment which looks forward to pupils ' future learning , as opposed to summative assessment which looks back at what pupils have already achieved . |
| 29 | Things have now finally reached the point which our Führer at the outbreak of this struggle prophesied to world Jewry in his great speech : ‘ … should Jewry once more succeed in again plunging the nations into a new world war , it would be the end of that race , and not ours . ’ |
| 30 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |