Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | Every day of the week , Maureen Timmins and her daughter Amanda sit down to write to their friends in America . |
2 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
3 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
4 | The Government remain entirely committed to bringing terrorism to an end through the vigorous and impartial actions of the police and the Army . |
5 | Prejudice , ignorance , frustration and fear together lead to hatred . |
6 | Yet the surviving scores provide little help to a modern impresario trying to figure out whom to hire . |
7 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
8 | Once you feel confident that you know what to do and why it should be done , you can put your knowledge to the test , choosing the time and place most suited to your own circumstances . |
9 | There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves . |
10 | In this one episode we find interconnections with race , class , colonialism , and ( cultural ) imperialism , and in ironic , domestic , tragically intricate ways : witness Gide finally capitulating to the class , racial , and cultural prejudices of his own culture , as voiced through his mother , who in turn speaks through her servant . |
11 | Sleep always came to him easily and quickly , very often unexpectedly , burying him when he was n't looking . |
12 | The melt usually has to be supercooled by about 5 to 20 K before a significant number of nuclei appear which possess the critical dimensions required for stability and further growth . |
13 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
14 | Our newsletter is not the first to be produced using desktop publishing methods , in the UK that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , a bi-monthly journal for authors and writers . |
15 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
16 | Cook also referred to Diplock 's ‘ evident distaste for trade unions ’ and said it was well known that ‘ taps ’ were frequently placed on trade unionists involved in trade disputes . |
17 | I want now to turn to a less philosophical question about my passage from my armchair to the kitchen . |
18 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
19 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
20 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |
21 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
22 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
23 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
24 | If you have difficulty in obtaining the information you want then write to : or to . |
25 | How true were the observations of Ecclesiastes : ‘ The wind goeth towards the south and turneth about into the north : it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits . ’ |
26 | Ironically , one casualty of failure to bring it into force would be the express attempt to limit action on the part of the Community through the concept of subsidiarity , even if in practical terms account already seems to be being taken of this concept . |
27 | Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging . |
28 | If we are very angry or excited , we tend not to listen to what other people are saying . |
29 | Members tend not to listen to each other . |
30 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |