Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had at first intended to drive straight to Jack 's house in Chelsea . |
| 2 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 3 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 4 | We 're only limited to go up to forty really are n't we ? |
| 5 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 6 | Vicente might have entrusted it to Tristram because he was being evacuated from Teruel and was expected to go back to England . |
| 7 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 8 | that a simple explanation for the explosion probably lies in the condenser , which cooled evaporating xylene as it left the reaction and was specially designed to accommodate up to 50 kg of deposited tetrachlorobenzene , without blocking . |
| 9 | All vehicles carry videotapes and illustrative material and are designed to accommodate up to sixteen girls working in pairs at eight work stations . |
| 10 | The multi-processor machine , dubbed Corporate Computing Server , is expected to support up to 3,000 users , and represents a performance boost of up to 7% on HP 's top of the line 9000 Series 800 servers . |
| 11 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 12 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 13 | According to estimates by the Reserve Bank of India , GDP growth was expected to fall back to 5-6 per cent during 1989-90 . |
| 14 | A new range of presentation gifts designed to appeal specifically to golfers and golf clubs was launched in 1991 by sports awards specialists , Colborne Trophies . |
| 15 | This day boat is specially designed to carry up to eleven passengers , six of whom could be in wheelchairs . |
| 16 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 17 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 18 | In a developing country , like India , a preference for sons would be expected to lead initially to a reduction in the birth rate , which would be to the country 's advantage ; and before long , the more farsighted parents will realise that in order to have grandchildren , they should select not sons , who may not be able to find wives , but daughters , who will be sought after , and be able to enter into advantageous marriages . |
| 19 | This approach thus represents an extension of the hierarchical system and can be considered to simplify down to such a system when each of the superior states are considered in turn . |
| 20 | The world recovery will be led by the United States , according to the IMF , where growth is expected to pick up to 3½ p.c. next year . |
| 21 | Furthermore , such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse . |
| 22 | At zero six hundred hours the following morning Captain Trentham gave them a full briefing : they were to be transported by ship to Boulogne , they learned , and after ten days ' further training they would be expected to march on to Etaples , where they would join their regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Danvers Hamilton DSO , who , they were assured , was preparing for a massive assault on the German defences . |
| 23 | Open Forum is to be a conference-led event with both technical and business streams , designed to lead up to 1993 and the establishment of the single European market — and the Commission of the European Communities has been closely involved in its organisation , says Borkovsky , promising more details in the future . |
| 24 | Talk of regional governmental or elected assemblies seemed pointless eyewash , a sign of weakness in the face of the nationalist challenge ; a policy designed to lead either to a call for total independence for Scotland and Wales or to a permanent loss of authority by Whitehall and therefore a diminution in the competence of Scottish and Welsh MPs . |
| 25 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 26 | So too has Mexico , where maquiladora enterprises are now permitted to sell up to 20 per cent locally under some conditions . |
| 27 | Although it covers all knowledge , it has been designed to apply specifically to collections in school libraries . |
| 28 | THE Victoria Cross won by a pilot during the first 1,000-bomber raid over Germany in May 1942 is expected to fetch up to £60,000 at Christie 's in London on April 24 . |
| 29 | The drawings are expected to fetch up to £500,000 ; the owners apparently had no idea of their value . |
| 30 | Among the 200 paintings coming under the auctioneer 's hammer is an original by the late Graham Sutherland — ‘ The Great Globe at Swanage ’ — which is expected to fetch up to £15,000 . |