Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er we turn , it 's about forty kilometres shorter to go via to Geneva via |
| 2 | In the case of the 9.43–10.12 interval , some counted on to ten or subtracted 43 from 60 and then added 12 . |
| 3 | ‘ What does that sound like to you ? ’ |
| 4 | Hubby was n't happy when no kiddies appeared ; blamed her , Sara had tried to be the good wife but failed ; the other wifies she was supposed to socialise with to further hubby 's career were dreadful , brainless bores . |
| 5 | a huge island in the middle , and erm went all the way round , and anyway I , I made a path out of flints from , taken from all the mud , and worked my way round , and then started to plant things , and a hawthorn hedge , bushes and shrubs , and erm my son gave me a boat and I was able to go across to the island . |
| 6 | I do not feel able to speculate as to whether or not it will recover sufficiently over the period in which we are dealing as to be again a and situation . |
| 7 | Very difficult to look through to through a lens with two eyeballs at the same time ! |
| 8 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |