Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll have a look at decimals because you need to need to know what you 're doing with decimals but decimals are fractions and until you I mean I think you 're very happy with fractions now you 're probably ready to go on to decimals . |
| 2 | Many sixth-formers , of course , left a maintained school to go on to universities , but only 10 per cent of these went to Oxford or Cambridge , compared with nearly half of the university-bound sixth-formers from the Public Schools . |
| 3 | Erm used to go down to weddings , at the register office on a Saturday morning , and hope that they 'd turn up without witnesses , because then you had to be compensated , , for giving your service . |
| 4 | For some elderly people who have no family or who ( quite reasonably ) do not feel that they need to hang on to capital to pass on to relatives who are themselves well provided for , the purchase of an annuity can be an advantage . |
| 5 | Flu can spread very rapidly , so it is easy to catch and to pass on to others . |
| 6 | Flu can spread very rapidly , so it is easy to catch and to pass on to others . |
| 7 | After a wee dram or two to ward off the winter chill , hardier types venture forth carrying lumps of coal to pass on to others as good luck tokens . |
| 8 | HAVE YOU A FAVOURITE RECIPE , HANDY HINT TO PASS ON TO OTHERS ? |
| 9 | The Bulletin , which gives impartial advice on medicines to doctors , says more GPs and nurses should learn these skills to pass on to patients . |
| 10 | This , of course , is subject to the question of whether the producer should have recalled the furniture if the risk was great , or issued warnings to retailers to pass on to consumers . |
| 11 | Three million acres or more of Britain 's countryside ca n't be left to tumble down to nettles , bracken , Oxford ragwort and rosebay willow herb , punctuated by leisure centres and car parks . |
| 12 | Then lie suggested that they might get Arthur Pugh , the moderate leader of the steelworkers who was that year 's chairman of the TUC , to come down to Chequers for tea and an exploratory talk . |
| 13 | I would have to slip away to toilets , down basement stairs , off into the closed stacks of the library and there strike the flint . |
| 14 | If teacher training is about preparing young men and women to work sensitively to children 's needs , and to provide a work force of newly trained teachers who are able to fit into schools effectively , the way in which initial teacher education is developing deserves careful reappraisal . |
| 15 | As we saw in Chapter 2 the expansion of large capital intensive firms has been promoted in a flexible industrial structure which permits them to adjust quickly to changes in demand . |
| 16 | Before the 1987 General Election he had a stand-up row over defence policy with Lord Callaghan , the former Labour Prime Minister , in the House of Commons tea-room , and he has been known to square up to Tories who have enraged him . |
| 17 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |
| 18 | They were told , now was the time to find the courage to stand up to terrorists , |
| 19 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 20 | It might be a relationship irreparably broken by force of circumstance or particular events : divorce , miscarriage , failure to come up to expectations . |
| 21 | Th the crime problem , as we 've already said is n't too , too great here but er nevertheless it 's important that we , we er keep our eyes open and try and keep crime out because some of these people that erm are living in the bigger cities that are criminals are now starting to discover that it 's easier to come out to places like Farnsfield and commit the crime , because we , we 're not experienced at it . |
| 22 | They 'll hev to come back to hosses yet . |
| 23 | Darlington transport committee heard yesterday Mr Drury has to write frequently to parents asking them not to park near the entrance . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh all right , I have n't been inside this house since I used to come here to dances when your father was a boy . |
| 25 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 26 | In the far-off fifties , mute obedience seemed to come readily to schoolchildren , in marked contrast to the sullen disobedience which is seen today . |
| 27 | When they turned seven , the boys had to go away to boys ' schools . |
| 28 | Libyans seemed to listen most to broadcasts from Libya , Cairo , Tel Aviv , Saudi Arabia , London , Monte Carlo and Kuwait . |
| 29 | So Zuwaya said it was indecent for a father and his sons to listen together to women drumming at circumcisions , or to go to weddings together — even to speak about weddings to each other . |
| 30 | Not if it means that company directors are literally unable to talk sensibly to outsiders . |