Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |
| 2 | So I suppose I shall have to rely for my silver lining upon Carrie Schlegel of Capistrano Beach , California , who was kind enough to write to this magazine to say that I was God . |
| 3 | Exit offended alter-ego with money enough to go to the pictures . |
| 4 | s26 ( 1 ) Where no fixed term has been agreed upon for the duration of the partnership , any partner may determine the partnership at any time on giving notice of his intention so to do to all the other partners . |
| 5 | ‘ Last term we had the dispenser in to talk to them . ’ |
| 6 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 7 | I lay the shotgun down to attend to that other chore — and , inevitably , out comes the rabbit . |
| 8 | Although , later , as the salvation of Verdun seemed assured , the Joffre coterie claimed the honours , there is nothing to suggest that , at the moment of de Castelnau 's departure from Chantilly , Joffre had definitely made up his mind not to retreat to the Left Bank . |
| 9 | Folly stared fixedly at the desk in an attempt not to listen to the one-sided conversation . |
| 10 | Tap the Right key once to move to the with text : prompt |
| 11 | Tap the Down key once to skip to : left : 1.25 ″ . |
| 12 | Tap the Right key once to skip to : right : 1.25 ″ . |
| 13 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | He studied in every spare moment he could find , not because he wanted to but because , in the absence of parents who would pay , he needed to win a scholarship even to get to school . |
| 15 | Evidential issues are often used , incorrectly , by organisations as an excuse not to adapt to new technologies , or to continue to maintain paper back-up of such documents . |
| 16 | The eventual decision not to accede to the army 's request was reportedly due to an effective campaign by the MQM , a crucial ally of the beleaguered federal government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif . |
| 17 | Has granny much to say to you ? |
| 18 | ‘ You can not wake up an old lady just to listen to your insane and morbid fantasies . ’ |
| 19 | Boys seem to make an effort only if they are going into a situation where they know they might meet someone they fancy , whereas lots of girls I know will put on make-up just to go to the local shop ! |
| 20 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 21 | But then the other faction , the shattered remains of the erstwhile " confident " party , had argued rather differently … far from being a sign of collapse it was , in fact , a sign of the Collector 's resolve , his determination not to submit to oppression , to fight back , in other words . |
| 22 | His journals in particular constitute a moving memorial to a young man of integrity and moral courage , whose determination not to succumb to pain and humiliation was at times heroic . |
| 23 | Lucenzo let out a warning stream of Italian , and Meredith had the distinct impression that he was telling Benito not to speak to her . |
| 24 | THE boys in blue turned knights in shining armour yesterday to go to the rescue of a young German woman left stranded in a resort . |
| 25 | That had to be suspicious , and as she went into the hall later to go to her room he followed . |
| 26 | And I in I invite I suppose the County Council really to respond to this issue of how they would intend erm indeed the districts , how they would intend to use these criteria certainly in a more rational and erm intellectually rigorous way than the sort of erm statements that were included in their January nineteen ninety two report . |
| 27 | We shall use the term migration here to refer to almost any pattern of movements by living things . |
| 28 | Arriving at Llandrindod Wells and being carefully instructed by the guard how to cross to the other platform and the reassurance that he would be coming with us . |
| 29 | Treaty did not apply to the fundamental right possessed by each state under international law freely to decide to which persons or vessels it would or would not grant its nationality . |
| 30 | Initially then , while the insider trading prohibition was directed only at persons connected with the company whose securities were in question , the Cady , Roberts decision broadened the scope of the law considerably to extend to , in this example , a trust officer who traded on the basis of inside information he had obtained from an insider . |