Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia went down to dinner that night and could n't help thinking that , even though it was certain that he was n't staying in the same hotel , or he 'd have said so , perhaps he might decide to have his dinner there . |
| 2 | She was determined that it was n't he who had affected her appetite either , and went down to dinner that night and ate quite a substantial meal , only to return to her room and spend the next hour again having trouble ousting the wretched man . |
| 3 | So to test some of the wild and wonderful claims made about inkjets , I looked at five machines with widely differing prices and features — from portables to full colour output . |
| 4 | So to stop all that , this is with the b building trade , they had to guarantee them . |
| 5 | So to call this a chemical time bomb is not unduly alarmist ? |
| 6 | So to end all that endeavour . |
| 7 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 8 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 9 | What I found amazing , to the extent of keeping me occupied combating fluoridation during the past 20 years on a more-than full-time basis , was that the sales promotion experts employed to build the fluoridation bandwagon have been able for so long to lull most scientists and politicians into accepting this method of diluting and dumping waste fluorides at public expense . |
| 10 | Teachers have constantly to buttonhole each other as they pass in the staffroom and tack extra things to do on to the bottom of each other 's already overlong agendas . |
| 11 | Perhaps he hoped thus to outmanoeuvre those critics who have accused him of infantilism . |
| 12 | Perhaps he hoped thus to outmanoeuvre those critics who have accused him of infantilism . |
| 13 | Twelve other members will continue their course through to Lent this year . |
| 14 | ‘ We did it just to book all the bands we knew , ’ recalls Barbara Pendleton at her office in the Festival 's West London HQ . |
| 15 | And no one 's told Mrs Padmore not to type all this bit . |
| 16 | I was hoping not to mention this , but since raised it , we 'll have to . |
| 17 | You may choose not to report this , but you should have the honesty to report Labour 's policy accurately . |
| 18 | This is not to essay any argument as to what the ultimate future of Northern Ireland should be . |
| 19 | I told McKenzie not to post any guards , just lock the doors and pocket the keys . |
| 20 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 21 | Two guards , both armed with machine-pistols , stood stiffly to attention either side of him . |
| 22 | ‘ When you did n't show up to see Kirsty off to school this morning , I thought you might have caught an early flight back to London . ’ |
| 23 | Whichever party is in opposition next time , let us try to decide early to timetable more Bills . |
| 24 | It is brought up to date each year , and includes virtually everybody over eighteen who is resident in a constituency . |
| 25 | The boys , both lively and active , were up to mischief all day long . |
| 26 | When Jessamy finally went up to bed that night , she was tired , but pleased with the way that the day had gone . |
| 27 | She would see it when she climbed up to bed that night . |
| 28 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 29 | He rang to say that he was coming up to town that evening … ’ |
| 30 | and half of it is rubbish and decent rubbish and that 's rubbish there it is I knew it was in here somewhere I knew I thought it was in the Prima they gave it to you but obviously it was erm in Essentials everything out of there do n't think they had many Christmas You used to was it you , you see you can make your own , was it you that we went up to town that time and brought those erm from John Lewis the round |