Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people feel restricted in their choices or limited to their present station in life , because their birthcharts declare that they are unlikely to better themselves . |
| 2 | Kevin McCloud , whose background is in history of art and theatrical set designing , presents 40 individual roomsets in a variety of styles to copy or adapt to your own home . |
| 3 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 4 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 5 | If you have a special request please advise your Travel Agent at the time of booking and ensure this is either correctly noted by the Agent on our computerised Reservations system or given to our Telephone Reservations department as appropriate . |
| 6 | Was I respecting the life within me , or pandering to my own healthy terror or going through what Alice went through ? |
| 7 | Instead of rushing to a telephone box less than 40 yards away or walking to her nearby home , Joanna trudged to the leisure centre . |
| 8 | Inside the territories the NGC was dismembered by Israel , its leaders expelled , imprisoned or confined to their home town . |
| 9 | The university teacher in Britain , thinking of producing a tape-slide sequence to explain a particular concept or process to his students , may well need only to consider , with a production assistant , the learning objectives , the structure of the process to be considered , the best ways to exemplify this in the photographs to be taken , the graphics to design , and the commentary to write , and then turn it all over to the producer to put into effect , with his guidelines and help . |
| 10 | More revisionist radical elite theorists have an alternative concept , ‘ technocracy ’ , to describe administrative elites who operate primarily in their own interests , or according to their own professional norms , rather than being beholden to outside elites . |
| 11 | If a small child is asked to group a set of objects he may gather together items according to their colour ( for example , all brown objects ) or according to their normal use ( for example , all cutlery ) . |
| 12 | Most systems also have some method of assigning scores which rank competing hypotheses according to how well they match the constraints , or according to their probability given the evidence . |
| 13 | For a party , a layer cake can be iced and decorated to fit the occasion , or according to your political persuasion . |
| 14 | Whenever one organism promotes the fitness of another at its own expense and without reciprocal benefit to itself or benefit to its own genes present in the recipient it has perforce performed an act of induced altruism . |
| 15 | The general structure of this unitary grant system was well designed to achieve these purposes , but the detailed arrangements incorporated a number of elements which either detracted somewhat from the equity of the system or added to its complexity . |
| 16 | There were some complete manuscripts but there were nothing more than a collection of royal warrants written personally by King James and sealed under his signet ring , granting tasks or favours to his ‘ beloved physician , Andrew Selkirk ’ . |
| 17 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 18 | Dr Mumby said , ‘ It would be a waste of time taking Mr Royan 's blood pressure or listening to his chest . |
| 19 | To have heard Rachmaninov play hisown or any other Russian music or to listen to his orchestral works is to realise he was a passionate musician , loving his art and giving his all to express the joys and sorrows , the tender and brutal moods and all the emotions to which man is subject . |
| 20 | Indeed , it appears that that debate was so thorough that many Northern Ireland Members no longer wish to debate the matter or to listen to my opening comments . |
| 21 | One family would gather on Sunday evening round the harmonium ; another would go to their grandfather 's village shop , boys and uncles each with a fiddle or cello , to sing or dance to their own tunes — ‘ we really enjoyed that ; ’ while a Yorkshire millowner 's family used to ask all their kin for weekly musical parties , taking turns to host these ‘ dreadful performances . ’ |
| 22 | Language comes alive when our creative writings are intended for real readers , genuinely interested in what we have to say , responding in speech or writing to our failures and successes , and this is just as important for young children as for students in higher education . |
| 23 | Limited by what , in a recession , it could realistically claim to be spending , and obliged to exaggerate its fiscal rectitude to appear electable in the City , Labour had either to trim its sails to an economic situation it assured us was dire — thereby undermining the main reason why people supported them — or hold to its promises , confirming the impression that , once the party was in power , taxation and spending would soar . |
| 24 | The Court decided that , although as a general rule dismissing a pregnant woman for a reason arising from or related to her pregnancy will result in direct discrimination under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , this is not an inevitable consequence . |
| 25 | A horse 's intense desire for company , too , may be protective , or related to its breeding strategy . |
| 26 | Which of the people engaged in work there may consider that tourists are a nuisance , or damaging to their activities ? |
| 27 | Manuscripts and correspondence of many other 20th-century Scottish writers were added to the collections , creating or adding to their representation . |
| 28 | Fly home , or transfer to your chosen Lakes and Mountains resort . |
| 29 | After breakfast , leave for Munich airport for your flight home ; or transfer to your chosen Lakes & Mountains resort . |
| 30 | What about might be going out with his mum or something , or going to his gran 's . |