Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [adv] 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 | Lonely nights , why he got drunk — just nothing to go home to . |
| 4 | Nothing to come home to for some . |
| 5 | 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 — ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It is great to have someone to come home to . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's great to have someone to come home to . |
| 9 | I wanted , suddenly , someone to come home to . |
| 10 | Look mate , what this country needs is someone to look up to . |
| 11 | For the first time in her life she 'd allowed someone to hook on to her . |
| 12 | It mea it means having someone to brag about to his friends . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | How many erm are already signed up at this present day for someone to follow on to now ? |
| 15 | All the attacker is offered is a sea of spines , with nothing to grip on to . |
| 16 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Those kids had nothing to look forward to . |
| 19 | ‘ With nothing to look forward to ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He has already brought a little magic into the lives of Bristol Rovers ' fans , who could see nothing to look forward to but relegation from Division One . |
| 23 | I had no facilities , no money , I was bored , fed up , had nothing to look forward to . |
| 24 | There was absolutely nothing to look forward to except sleep and food , and these commodities had now become very important . |
| 25 | I knew I had no one to love me and nothing to look forward to . |
| 26 | Now , tonight , there is nothing to look forward to , no reason to get up in the morning or move from one day into the next . |
| 27 | She had nothing to look forward to , and she wanted to die . |
| 28 | Nothing to look forward to but post-Christmas depression , endless grey skies and a new VAT regime from Brussels . |
| 29 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 30 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |