Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enclosure of a large stamped addressed envelope will of course be appreciated by any of the organisations you may wish to write to for information , booklets or advice on your own problems or those of your parent . |
| 2 | Now I was making ten shillings a week , and I had to pay a penny toll every day to come to from office . |
| 3 | He went on , more to her father now than to her , in his light drawling voice she had to listen to in church every Sunday of her life telling them all what was what because he had the God-given power to do so and they had to listen and obey . |
| 4 | I had quite a good vocabulary and had written letters to Eric , but I had n't had anyone to talk to in English . |
| 5 | My mother was more obviously unhappy ; she missed ‘ home ’ , as she never ceased to call Lewis , and her own family , and having someone to talk to in Gaelic , which was her first language but not my father 's . |
| 6 | She had seen it far too often : the self-inflicted divorces , the ones you had to talk to before lunch because the rest of their day was an alcoholic marsh , those shunted to a not-too-responsible job in the Registry or an early pension — ; Peace hath its victims no less renowned than war . |
| 7 | In describing her daily life every woman interviewed outlined the kind of standards she thought it important to stick to in housework , and the type of routine she used to achieve this end . |
| 8 | I du n no if they got nests or nothing to go to at night , but sat there under that bush all huddled up , they look froze to death . |
| 9 | If he turned and walked away from them , they had no one else to go to for help , advice and healing . |
| 10 | The greatest difficulty of all was in having no close confidant , no father or brother to go to for advice or comfort . |
| 11 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 12 | : A bunch of us whose ages ranged from 151/2 to 17 were in our billet waiting to go to on parade and were listening to the billet radio system . |
| 13 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 14 | Driving you home or driving to wherever you want to go to in style on Trent F M , more updates later . |
| 15 | So special attention should be given to any unusual contract terms you may be called upon to agree to in case these make the contract illegal . |
| 16 | But then I was never much of a businesswoman and I had no close relatives left to turn to for help and advice . |
| 17 | Obviously if you have family living near enough , they would be the first to turn to for help of this kind . |
| 18 | While kin are a major source of support , especially when elderly people become unable to live on their own , a considerable number of the elderly have no kin to turn to for assistance : it has been estimated that about one quarter of elderly women aged 60 in the early 1970s had no surviving children ( but the proportion will drop in years to come ) ( Timaeus , 1986 ) . |
| 19 | One advantage of a naming ceremony is that the child can be given ‘ godparents ’ to turn to for support . |
| 20 | Cut off from close friends and sympathetic counsellors , and without any creed to turn to for support , he was in an ideal condition to respond to a new spiritual guide : his discovery of Schopenhauer when browsing one day in Leipzig bookshop seemed like an event preordained . |
| 21 | This ignorance is compounded by a lack of knowledge of where to turn to for advice , and a fear of direct contact with enforcing authorities . |
| 22 | The Office of Fair Trading 's Consumer Use of Credit Survey showed that the Citizens Advice Bureaux were seen as far the most obvious place to turn to for advice on problems of meeting credit payments with 69 per cent of the 2,155 respondents to the survey . |
| 23 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 24 | But as the limits of the human memory did not enable men to retain beyond a very limited number of names ; and even if it had , as it would have required a most inconvenient portion of time , to run over in discourse , as many names of individuals , and of individual qualities , as there is occasion to refer to in discourse , it was necessary to have contrivances of abridgment . |
| 25 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 26 | The truss rod is accessed from this end of the neck and so the fretboard extending in this way means that the truss rod is either neatly tucked away , or a pain to get to for adjustment 's sake , depending on how you view the situation . |
| 27 | Mhm do you have do you have a lo I mean is it is it easy to get to in touch say you want to in an emergency , to get in touch with anyone phone , is it is it easy to get to a phone ? |
| 28 | So in any one point in time the movement is going to depend on identifying exactly where you are at the moment in terms of any of the cycles and where it is you want to get to in relation to , to a particular situation facing you . |
| 29 | It 's about halfway between London and Edinburgh , about level with Liverpool and Hull , and it 's easy to get to by train , plane or automobile . |