Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may be out of the running but we can still have a big say in who goes through to the United States , ’ said Hughes . |
| 2 | And judges Sir John Harvey-Jones and foot writer Jocelyn Dimbleby with presenter Loyd Grossman have to choose the winner who goes through to the final ‘ cook-off ’ in July . |
| 3 | This sense of loyalty still remains in the figure of Sir Bedivere who goes on to ‘ fling Excalibur ’ back to the lake ; a task of great difficulty because of the sword 's ‘ worthy note ’ and ‘ the wonder of its hilt ’ which entranced him . |
| 4 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 5 | For anyone who goes out to work or has to leave home early during the week the garden is a weekends-only pleasure for almost half of the year . |
| 6 | We also knew that we constituted the stock middle-class ‘ Ladybird ’ family : Father who goes out to work , mother who works at home , one daughter and one son ; as such we are entirely unrepresentative of the average family . |
| 7 | The families are within that structure , where it is accepted that it is the man who goes out to work . |
| 8 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 9 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 10 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 11 | They emigrate to Australia , and do not learn till long afterwards that Ham has died in a vain attempt to save a drowning man , who turns out to be Steerforth . |
| 12 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ High time someone started asking a few awkward questions , ’ says his neighbour , who turns out to be an expert in Moral Law . |
| 14 | But their home habits are violently interrupted by a male intruder , who turns out to be no more than a secret admirer of one of the sisters , writer ‘ Viola Ge ’ . |
| 15 | In murder mysteries , it is always the least suspicious person who turns out to be the killer . |
| 16 | If a person assaults another who turns out to be a policeman , he can he convicted of assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty even though he had no knowledge that the other was a policeman , or even the means of such knowledge . |
| 17 | Then he quite literally bumps into someone who turns out to be a very good friend indeed . |
| 18 | You might try it on with a girl in the park who turns out to be a policewoman in disguise . |
| 19 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 20 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 21 | It is like a man who storms up to the top of a great mountain and then just drops down . |
| 22 | The man who can live here is the one who reaches out to his fellows . ’ |
| 23 | The scientist who hangs on to yesterday 's theory as if it were eternal truth is liable to be dumped on the flat earth — where he belongs . |
| 24 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 25 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 26 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 27 | There is a gentle , much maligned ghost who calls out to you . ’ |
| 28 | A child who suffers up to forty fits a day is baffling doctors , who say they do n't know what 's caused the little girl 's brain disorder . |
| 29 | Any customer who phones in to a P&O Roadtanks depot , can hire a vehicle for a one-off delivery . |
| 30 | At the start a group of actors and friends are preparing a surprise party for the director , Michael Manx ( Stephen Moore ) , but it is his older brother Alfred , played by Finney , who strides on to the set first . |