Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line screamed out as Trent beat to windward off the reef . |
| 2 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 3 | In the final version , however , the wording had been amended to state that foreign banking markets were required to provide equivalent , but not necessarily identical , access facilities to EC banks if they wanted to trade within the EC ; it was also agreed that any foreign banks which were already trading legally within the EC would not need to reapply for authorization . |
| 4 | But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) . |
| 5 | I offered them all glasses as well , and Angelica took one and went on bellyaching to all around her about how Steve had let her down and she should never have trusted the louse , and it was a tribute to her acting that there was a distinct drawing aside of skirts in the pursed mouths of those around her who were fed up with hearing about it . |
| 6 | Would of been right , you know would have been a nightmare , expected to all over the place . |
| 7 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 8 | Now you have to come to somewhere like this , mix it with sixty thousand people , pay over twenty quid , and not forget to bring your opera glasses . |
| 9 | It shows that while the UK was in deep deficit in trade with the dollar area , in most years this was added to significantly by the deficit of the rest of the sterling area ( broadly speaking , the Dominions minus Canada , plus the colonies , plus a few other countries like Iraq ) . |
| 10 | the work has come to well in hand on development and drawings to show that proposal . |
| 11 | He had come to quite like the outfit . |
| 12 | The changes of recent years have brought a small but measurable increase in the size of the audience , now at just under half a million listeners , in spite of its transmission being confined to AM at an off-peak time . |
| 13 | now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from the case and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is marking the reference , if , what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , of course with the statute , er something which er it involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in er maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline from the law to show us a sufficiently strong case to justify the er , er , the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 14 | Now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from , in fact the same case , and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is making the reference , it what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , in fact the terms were caused in the statute er something which in involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline the law to show us the simply strong case to justify the er , er the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 15 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 16 | What I referred to previously as the comprador mentality , the slavish attachment to things foreign , is not a necessary component of the ideology of the TCC , but it does occur ( see Chan , 1987 , ch.18 ) . |
| 17 | You What some you were erm , erm , put off by there , was the fact that these senses , I referred to just by their noun , like smell and touch , and you did n't recognise there , was reference to the whole sense . |
| 18 | Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service . |
| 19 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 20 | Not every day like we used to just after her accident , but quite a lot all the same . |
| 21 | I do n't understand therefore how you can ex say that it 's targeted to primarily to manufacturing . |
| 22 | There are no proposals either in er draught directive form or before this house on that matter as far as I know and certainly er if that were to be the proposal it would be objected to strenuously on this side of the house . |
| 23 | One can not know what an adjective is being applied to just by considering its lexical meaning : the support of an adjective is defined by something outside the adjective 's own lexical content . |
| 24 | Hm , hello there , could I speak to please in the sales office ? |
| 25 | My Lords , I er apologise first of all that I was not able to hear some of the earlier speeches in this Debate erm but it does seem to me a most interesting Debate and I have to confess that I always become slightly uneasy er when the great and the good , and I suppose we should collectively cast ourselves in that role of being the great and good of the establishment are all of one view and I wonder whether it is necessarily right and so I begin to question er whether your Lordships enthusiasm for many of these amendments and their attack upon the Government 's proposals is necessarily as soundly based as we might think if we just listen to casually to it all . |
| 26 | Connie 's family moved to here in 1914 , and ever since then have taken a particular interest in the third-of-an-acre garden which has always been maintained in a traditional cottage garden style . |
| 27 | He seldom apologised in a tough league , but felt moved to once after a particularly loud , prolonged and slanderous outburst against a small , bespectacled umpire who had turned down an appeal : ‘ Sorry , umpire . |
| 28 | Locally it needs to be done to as near a professional standard as possible . |
| 29 | While his schedule would appear to most to be a fairly exhaustive one Best is actually looking forward to the weekend , ‘ The first since September when there has been no real pressure on me . |
| 30 | The , the Labour Party was seeking to actually to the value of the airfield . |