Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's , it 's , it 's e once , once you get over this shock of , aargh I have n't got a number , oh what am I going to do , nothing to cling on to it 's all letters , ooh I ca n't do it , I ca n't do it . |
| 2 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 3 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 4 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 5 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 6 | " Nice to hear of someone hanging on to their old family possessions . |
| 7 | Cross-examined by his solicitor , Nigel Bruce , Middleton said : ‘ I am shaking in case someone goes back to Newcastle and says something . |
| 8 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 9 | Someone carried out to the nine men a tray of bottled beer and the spell broke . |
| 10 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 11 | He surfed the reef breaks — La Jolla , Windansea , Swamis — until one day someone came up to him and said , ‘ With the kind of lines you draw you should go and surf Hawaii . ’ |
| 12 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 13 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 14 | Look mate , what this country needs is someone to look up to . |
| 15 | For the first time in her life she 'd allowed someone to hook on to her . |
| 16 | The ‘ female ’ could be a female impersonator , or someone in disguise , or an actor on the way to a theatre ; the ‘ angry ’ or ‘ excited ’ person could be deaf , or someone calling out to a friend some distance away . |
| 17 | Someone get on to the police immediately ! ’ |
| 18 | Someone called out to her , and she turned to acknowledge it , at the same time feeling herself collide with a broad chest in a white coat . |
| 19 | the rate last week and every time she she has to stay in bed like you know , someone rings up , she says , Maureen says get up because someone coming round to your house . |
| 20 | It mea it means having someone to brag about to his friends . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events . |
| 22 | So in future we hope that , if anyone needs to have an up-to-date picture of the reserves in , say , Nova Scotia , they could just click it up on screen rather than have to wade through some hefty document or wait for someone to get back to them . ’ |
| 23 | So when you , if someone camps on to you , is that what happens , if I take my desk , there 's an unusual amount of ringing and nobody there when I actually pick it up . |
| 24 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 25 | And it was only till someone pointed out to me you should n't really say that |
| 26 | The liability of someone held out to be a partner is co-extensive with the liability of partners properly so called ( see s14 above ) . |
| 27 | When someone comes up to me however and says , ‘ Where can I take the family for a reasonably priced holiday ? ’ |
| 28 | When someone comes up to him and says , ‘ Hey , Per , could you do a concert in aid or our church roof , £20 expenses , staying overnight with the verger and his wife ? ’ , he says , ‘ Of course ! |
| 29 | The nicest compliment I 'm ever paid is when someone comes up to me and says : " You 're no different from what you are on the screen " . |
| 30 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |