Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as a sound background in Economics and Statistics , the candidate must demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively to potential and existing clients . |
| 2 | Unimpressed , I went down to the edge of the fjord to find somewhere to camp . |
| 3 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 4 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 5 | How can I forget Johnny McCarthy whose humour , whose mimicry , whose abundant love of life on so many , on so many times seemed to diminish almost to extinction , those grinding moments of hopelessness . |
| 6 | Some reasons you may find apply in your case include : deciding on a career change ; looking for more responsibility ( both good , positive reasons ) ; coming to the end of seasonal or short-contract employment ; insufficient money ; wanting to work closer to home . |
| 7 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 8 | ‘ Pappy , I want to go away to school . |
| 9 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 10 | Otherwise if we do n't invest money and time in training , we 're forced to have to go outside to sort of buy in people , because we have n't actually invested in them . |
| 11 | These changes were to lead eventually to competition and dissent between the two main providers , particularly in the Eastern District as it was a predominantly rural area . |
| 12 | To dwell upon the problem emotions of others is frowned upon as ‘ morbid curiosity ’ , likely to lead only to highlighting and prolonging them , thereby causing unnecessary pain . |
| 13 | As the war progressed Hitler tended to listen only to advice that agreed with his own views and no one was willing to disagree with him . |
| 14 | Given a good breeze , the 3¾ square metres ( 40 sq ft ) of a standard Rokkaku can be allowed to hover close to ground effect where wind speed is lower . |
| 15 | The law might be seen to seek a balance between paternalism and liberation , accepting that whilst advancement of the autonomy interests of children to make their own decisions in respect of their own lives is an appropriate aim of the law , some restrictions are necessary to enable children to progress safely to maturity . |
| 16 | I decided to go home to bed . |
| 17 | He was tired and wanted to go home to bed . |
| 18 | By the time he had found the way , it was after midnight , the clock had chimed ages ago , and Shelley could do nothing but walk up the hill to go home to bed . |
| 19 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 20 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 21 | The Huddlestons of Millom were active on Gloucester 's behalf throughout Cumbria , but their own land led them to look rather to north Lancashire , where they had dealings with the Harringtons . |
| 22 | Eventually , Sabine had been glad to escape altogether to university , where she 'd read Modern Languages . |
| 23 | Miss Roybal-Allard originally wanted the ban to apply only to divorce , probate and child-custody cases . |
| 24 | This upward jerk can be very painful and is sometimes enough to dishearten the attacker and allow the hedgehog to scuttle away to safety without having to resort to the passive rolling-up defence . |
| 25 | If one was to look forward to work , it needed to be stimulating and enjoyable , but precisely what was meant by this could not quite be imagined . |
| 26 | I used to look forward to commentary on a Sat. afternoon , but it seems such a tie as Ipswich at home can not even produce a goal never mind a win . |
| 27 | Understandably people want to look forward to retirement , and for many people part of that dream is the rose-covered cottage or modern bungalow in the country or by the sea . |
| 28 | Its brief was to ‘ help and persuade as many people as possible to look forward to retirement as the time of fulfilment ’ ( Hubbard 1962 ) . |
| 29 | There 's always things to look forward to football is n't there ? |
| 30 | I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance . |