Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought I told you to go straight to bed when I sent you home last night . " |
| 32 | She had said , peremptory as always , that he was to go straight to Room III , where " the miraculous stuff " was to be found . |
| 33 | The Dolphin People shamans know a complex series of whistles that signal the dolphins to venture close to shore . |
| 34 | Could we please NOT exchange presents this Christmas — has such dreadful expenses because of and I should prefer to give more to charity than I anyway do . |
| 35 | She said that the secret of a happy prison life was to submit cheerfully to buggery from morning till night , but phooey to that . |
| 36 | According to Fiers , he was ordered by George to testify falsely to Congress in order to protect the Reagan administration . |
| 37 | No-one would maintain , however , that those of us who are unable to contribute economically to society through no fault of our own , should be denied our rights to live in society and derive its benefits . |
| 38 | He had something of a Huckleberry Finn spirit , wanting to run away to sea . |
| 39 | Designed to entice thousands of turn-of-the-century tourists to run away to sea , the P&O Poster Collection will be at London 's Chelsea Harbour , 16 Dec-12 Jan ( 071–839 8533 ) — the perfect escape to faraway places with strange-sounding names if you 're visiting the Boat Show , 1–12 January . |
| 40 | I mean , you want to run home to mother . |
| 41 | But so ill-matched had the contest become that respective boards of control no longer appeal to the ICC for a ruling on intimidatory bowling , preferring instead to petition directly to Amnesty International . |
| 42 | The acquisition of Ultramar in late 1991 fulfilled a strategic aim to strengthen LASMO1s extensive interests in the North Sea and Indonesia , creating two core businesses to contribute strongly to production and cashflow . |
| 43 | Those boards which took the establishment of a training programme seriously have been able to contribute constructively to school decision-making . |
| 44 | If the private sector is to contribute seriously to debt counselling then it is likely to want to know how many CAB clients adhere to their repayment schedules and how many emerge better able to cope and more confident after counselling . |
| 45 | Dr. Lorrimer seemed to be the only member of Hoggatt 's who was known to go regularly to church . |
| 46 | Slicing already inadequate budgets down to the lowest possible level would reduce care managers ' ability to respond flexibly to user need at the very point at which they were supposed to be maximising choice . |
| 47 | The pilots and crew had , in some instances , been able to trek overland to safety but the aircraft , valued at many millions , would remain there imprisoned forever . |
| 48 | Like the wild dog , the Akita tends to respond more to body language than words . |
| 49 | Whichever party is in opposition next time , let us try to decide early to timetable more Bills . |
| 50 | Besides entailing bearer form ( hence attractive to some types of investor ) lack of registration , disclosure and prospectus requirements also makes eurobond finance more flexible , and so allows borrowers both to take advantage of temporary shifts in relative yields , and to respond quickly to market demand . |
| 51 | Yet to me it is more quietly impressive than all the grand ‘ exegi monumentum ’ gestures , since it refuses to turn outward to time , or the world , but addresses itself with complete absorption to its subject . |
| 52 | Recovery in the UK gathered momentum during the second quarter as the UK portfolio continued to respond positively to action on rates and operating costs . |
| 53 | Then , his expression quite impassive , he dug a hand into a trouser pocket and carefully , as if trying to hold fast to quick-silver , brought up a fistful of small change . |
| 54 | Difficult to hold fast to time . |
| 55 | The response of British farmers to this development was to turn increasingly to specialization — dairy farming , market gardening , poultry and fruit farming . |
| 56 | Separate national autonomies had appeal for those with some stake in society , the lower-middle classes , craft and some skilled workers ; the right wing gravitated towards peaceful reform and nationalism , while the left endeavoured to hold hard to revolution and a working-class unity that would cut horizontally across the empire . |
| 57 | This is still true when he says that some of the respondents lacked the emotional maturity to respond adequately to poetry . |
| 58 | Such may be the consequence of subletting council property without prior approval of the local authority , in order to live closer to college . |
| 59 | Finally , Chair , if I can just ask members to turn briefly to page C one , the first blue page . |
| 60 | It requires a lot of hard talking to go abroad to film these days : the main justification is for filming out of season — this is sometimes essential , but can often be avoided by good planning . |