Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 2 | It was just ten minutes to nine , and Richard walked by on his way up to World 's End to catch a bus to the office . |
| 3 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 4 | He just requires to spend one night in London , he 's due to catch a flight to Vienna the next day . " |
| 5 | Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister . |
| 6 | Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh . |
| 7 | By means of his smart plumage and his simple song , the male tries to attract a female to his nest site . |
| 8 | A male Couch 's spadefoot calls to attract a female to the pond . |
| 9 | This option enables you to request a package to be offlined . |
| 10 | It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production . |
| 11 | This is partly a result of the success of the Registration and Inspection Service 's efforts to encourage a move to more single room provision . |
| 12 | This does much to encourage a client to be confident of your ability and to cement relationships . |
| 13 | In this respect and others the approach has similarities with the SSM , particularly with regards to client participation to encourage a commitment to any changes that result from the audit . |
| 14 | The alternative for prosecutors is to accept a plea to a non-sexual offence such as assault occasioning actual bodily harm or unlawful wounding which carry maximum penalties of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | Employees may wish to accept a transfer to another area but can not afford to do so . |
| 16 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 17 | On Nov. 12 Israel agreed to accept a visit to Jerusalem by Jean-Claude Aimé as the envoy of the UN Secretary-General , on condition that Aimé would not use the opportunity of his visit for an investigation specifically directed to the Temple Mount killings . |
| 18 | At the height of this committee and other administrative work , Roderick often expressed his desire to return to his mathematics and , in particular , to write a sequel to his famous book ( with R.A. Frazer and W.J. Duncan ) Elementary Matrices . |
| 19 | The author , Susan Hill , was given a large advance to write a sequel to Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca and Emma Tennant is penning a follow-up to Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice . |
| 20 | On yet another , from New York to France in 1826 , she found time to write a preface to her father 's recently discovered memoirs , published in Philadelphia in 1827 . |
| 21 | Inspiration is one thing … but is it courage or vanity to presume to write a follow-up to a classic |
| 22 | Then she sat down to write a letter to an old friend , the editor of her chosen journal . |
| 23 | ‘ Rose , ’ she said , ‘ I want to write a letter to my daughter , my daughter in Germany . |
| 24 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 25 | On his way he visited Rycote House in Oxfordshire to write a letter to his beloved monarch . |
| 26 | The fourth book featured a scene in which a man planned to write a letter to his Father and Mother telling them of his new-found happiness , but he never could bring himself to write the letter . |
| 27 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |
| 28 | HOW TO WRITE A LETTER to Feedback ( R4 ) , rule one : always be incandescent with rage about something so minor that a normal person would not even notice it , let alone write to complain . |
| 29 | She suggested I might like to write a letter to head office . |
| 30 | ‘ You want me to write a letter to your wife ? ’ |