Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 2 | Lonely nights , why he got drunk — just nothing to go home to . |
| 3 | And when they had dined , the remainder was divided among them to carry home to their families . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 5 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 6 | Mr Jaggers clearly thought Joe was a fool for refusing money , and left the house , reminding me to go straight to his office in London in a week 's time . |
| 7 | When we arrived at her house , Eva put her hand on my shoulder and told me to go upstairs to Charlie . |
| 8 | In she comes for her pension , takes it without a by-your-leave then calls me a bloody wog and tells me to go home to where I come from . ’ |
| 9 | The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August pushed prices up to $413 an ounce although peace initiatives at the end of August [ see p. 37695 ] caused them to fall again to around $382 an ounce . |
| 10 | Nothing to come home to for some . |
| 11 | Stuck at work all day with no-one to come home to at night — all very well for you sitting holding hands with Ted with little Frieda watching , you do n't know what it 's like , being on your own , not really — ’ |
| 12 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 13 | The reason is that erm the question of membership seems to me to relate essentially to the ministry of the whole people of God . |
| 14 | As we saw in Chapter 2 the expansion of large capital intensive firms has been promoted in a flexible industrial structure which permits them to adjust quickly to changes in demand . |
| 15 | She asked me to come straight to you . |
| 16 | ‘ It is great to have someone to come home to . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's great to have someone to come home to . |
| 18 | I wanted , suddenly , someone to come home to . |
| 19 | What had I to look forward to ? |
| 20 | Though this may sound childish — and I was in fact childish in many ways , as young women are who have never had to shift for themselves but have always had someone to stand between them and the world — it did , in fact , help me to behave better to Nonni , who was not stupid at all in matters of feeling , and easy to hurt . |
| 21 | There was only one option left and that was for me to talk directly to Albert Spanswick , the Chairman of the TUC Health Services Committee . |
| 22 | ‘ I want ye to go upstairs to yer daughter , ’ he said in a low , hard voice , ‘ and ask her to answer one question . |
| 23 | I 'll tell you about Evan Roberts later , and there 's plenty to tell even to those who buy a magazine simply because it says Climber on the cover . |
| 24 | Not a lot for them to look forward to . |
| 25 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 26 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 27 | Those kids had nothing to look forward to . |
| 28 | ‘ With nothing to look forward to ? ’ |
| 29 | Dennis would never let me forget what he had done for me , and come September I had nothing to look forward to except another year of slavery on Clive 's treadmill . |
| 30 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |