Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking her A levels and hoping to go on to read for a degree in hospitality management at Norwich City college . |
| 2 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 3 | They 're not actually prepared to go in to diagnosing dementia which I think is very wise of them but it means that you could then get into a very interesting discussion about whether we 're talking about people with dementia or about people who are simply confused . |
| 4 | This visit , he told Alice as the train took them back to London later that evening , had been a very happy one and it was his intention to go down to Calking to see them all again very soon . |
| 5 | Perhaps he should extend it , for he had not yet taken Alice to the promised lunch at the Ritz , or been up to Leicestershire to see Mrs Appleby , or fulfilled his promise to Jenny to go down to Calking to see the shop and meet Jack and his family . |
| 6 | He categorizes the transformation of the inexpressible " visceral " need through four stages , ending up with a " compromised " need which requires extensive negotiation with the assistance of a librarian to come close to fulfilling the original visceral need . |
| 7 | Waqar had tome to come close to removing Hick 's head and they shaved his wicket with a rapid breakback , but Gower was still flowing when lunch came , England 195 for 4 and still some way from safety . |
| 8 | How long did it take you to work up to getting a full man 's wage ? |
| 9 | A bachelor with a sister as housekeeper , he had found retirement unstimulating , and had been pleased to come back to teaching at any price , any place . |
| 10 | Goffman 's notion of footing seems to come closest to encapsulating the complex of participant-oriented factors which are involved . |
| 11 | This perception seems to come closer to providing an explanation for sex-differentiation in language than explanations based on prestige . |
| 12 | It is designed to act out potential accidents that could occur in a full-scale , commercial reactor , and it claims to come closer to recreating the real thing than any other testing facility . |
| 13 | It required the next generation of researchers and a simpler mollusc to come closer to finding god 's favourite . |
| 14 | Apart from beetles and damp there was a curious , sweet , noxious smell which took months to track down to seeping drains , and then more months to put right . |
| 15 | She was beginning to acclimatise to not being alone , to look forward to seeing Christopher : to eating with him , listening to music with him , being silent with him , talking to him , walking with him , occasionally sleeping with him . |
| 16 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 17 | but now we can acknowledge that the advance in South Africa 's cricket prospects is as much in their debt as it is to the current leaders who have united South African cricket and allowed it , for the first time in two centuries , to look forward to drawing on all the resources of the nation 's youth regardless of race , colour or creed . |
| 18 | This happens when a man 's ordinary hours of duty are 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and when one likes to look forward to spending a few hours with one 's family . |
| 19 | I actually began to look forward to coming here , and my family could n't believe it ! |
| 20 | Spokespeople or representatives had constantly to justify their activities and statements to committees , which in turn would have to report back to steering groups and working parties elected by conferences and regional groups . |
| 21 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 22 | He stayed for a while sitting exhaustedly as if loath to take up his burdens again , postponing the moment when he would have to go back to supporting everyone else . |
| 23 | The split apparently came after the fiery-tempered pair had a row about Tatum wanting to go back to acting — leaving McEnroe to look after the children while she makes movies . |
| 24 | Mind you suddenly I 've had to go back to running on . |
| 25 | To go back to spending her days there was unendurable . |
| 26 | We would like to provide dental care through ther normal channels and dentists in Swindon would like to go back to offering that service . |
| 27 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 28 | Article 1 of the Single European Act reads : The European Communities and European political Cooperation shall have as their objective to contribute together to making concrete progress towards European unity . ’ |
| 29 | Consonants tend to contribute more to making English understood than vowels do . |
| 30 | ‘ They benefit from me being here , but they appreciate that I go out to work occasionally , so it wo n't come as such a shock to them when I start to build up to going back to work properly ’ . |