Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 2 | At Holy Trinity , Brompton , all four priests are Old Etonians , one of the churchwardens is a former private secretary of Margaret Thatcher 's , and it is not unknown for members of the congregation to go on to a wedding reception in St James 's Palace . |
| 3 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 4 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 5 | I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments . |
| 6 | And every time they put themselves forward to go on to a tra on a training course , they 've actually got to think through , and maybe justify to their line manager , |
| 7 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 8 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 9 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 11 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 12 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 13 | I had left my mother and father and husband to go alone to a place which was completely unknown to me in order to live with people who were equally unknown . |
| 14 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 15 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 16 | At the same time it should be recognized that the Library 's exhibitions in their present form are likely to appeal only to a limited audience . |
| 17 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |
| 18 | Sew a ring in the centre of the band to slip on to a cup hook . |
| 19 | In Europe we have to strike a balance between the needs of the audience in the hall and the requirement to communicate effectively to a far larger audience through television . |
| 20 | SCIENTISTS are beginning to catch on to a technique with the space-age name of FAB-MS ( fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry ) . |
| 21 | Sometimes problems arise from the fact that his relationship with his own mother has been unsatisfactory , and he is faced with the hard task of learning from scratch how to relate successfully to a woman of the older generation who has joined his household . |
| 22 | Because we do send people erm er sorry send , we ask people to come on to a training course which we fully expense . |
| 23 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 24 | Since there was never anything at all gratuitously coarse or vulgar about Karajan 's music-making , it is true that he never attempted to graft on to a score like Verdi 's Falstaff additional jokes or belly-laughs . |
| 25 | Should the United States , it therefore asked , allow Britain to adjust naturally to a lower level of power — defined by some as that of a " comparatively lesser middle state " ? |
| 26 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 27 | See if you can get one to come along to a Brownie meeting and tell you more about what being a Guide is like . |
| 28 | Experience with rural advice in the north east area has shown that telephone advisers become skilled at solving basic problems over the phone and recognising those where the client needs to come in to a bureau for in-depth advice . |
| 29 | There was nothing in the least bit objectionable about him , but he looked as though he had a computer where his heart was , and rushed home at night to plug in to a socket and recharge the batteries . |
| 30 | And Lenin , who had talked only at party meetings , before audiences of Marxist students , who had hardly appeared in public in 1905 , now spoke to them with a voice of authority that was to pick up all their undirected energy , to command their uncertain confidence , and to swell suddenly to a world-wide resonance . |