Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 2 | In fact , by the year 2000 the number of school leavers will not have returned to the 1970 level and is predicted to continue to fall to an all-time low in 1993/4(2) . |
| 3 | From the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , the educated élite became exposed to a heady concoction of western romantic , Idealist , and socialist ideas . |
| 4 | ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’ |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Do you want to go to a party ? ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Aggie , I do n't want to go to a school where I wo n't be able to get out and come home . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you want to go to a party tomorrow night ? ’ he asked . |
| 8 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 9 | I wanted a drink , but I did n't want to go to a pub at that time of the evening , when the rush would be on , and the serious drinkers getting down to it . |
| 10 | She did n't want to go to a dentist ; even her own dentist scared her , and it could n't be much — her teeth were perfect . |
| 11 | Why do you want to go to a party today ? |
| 12 | ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious . |
| 13 | Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End . |
| 14 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
| 15 | The rule as originally formulated refers to a person who for his own purposes brings on to his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes . |
| 16 | The electors intend to proceed to an election to the Coulson Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry , which falls vacant on 1 October 1994 upon the retirement of Professor N.H. March , and invite applications by 26 July 1993 . |
| 17 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 18 | However , the landlords sought to come to an arrangement with the sub-tenant , a Mr Clayton , under which they would peaceably re-enter the premises and change the locks . |
| 19 | While McEnroe , who appeared far from visibly insecure , enjoyed watching the following match between compatriots Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , a clearly embarrassed Babcock was left to confirm that if he failed to come to a press conference after his next match — against Goran Ivanisevic tonight — he would be fined up to $10,000 . |
| 20 | We had tea afterwards in a hotel in Berthing , but we failed to come to an agreement . |
| 21 | If people expected to come to a meeting to make a decision , they will feel let down if the meeting does not reach one . |
| 22 | The upshot of these economically balanced budgets within species is that arms races between species tend to come to a mutually stable end , with one side ahead . |
| 23 | All timbers tend to come to an equilibrium with the relative humidity of the surrounding air . |
| 24 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 25 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
| 26 | The begetters of the whole event are artist Chris Garratt and writer Mick Kidd , who will be running a practical workshop in the Dovecot tomorrow , when they intend to work to a deadline to produce a complete comic strip . |
| 27 | Jenna found that she did n't want to know , in fact she did n't want to know to an almost frantic extent . |
| 28 | Her parents were told that Dawn had evidently suffered a stroke , and would probably recover to remain confined to a wheelchair . |
| 29 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 30 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |