Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid the waste of pupil time which arises from duplication of teaching in differing phases of schooling when the gap itself creates discontinuity , a variety of organizations have been used by LEAs to make sure that primary and secondary schools make clear to each other , first , what is being provided and later , as achievements and the needs of learning change , to help them to plan together to create a complementary or continuous curriculum between the phases . |
| 2 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 3 | I intend also to drop a line to Norman too . |
| 4 | I intend speedily to provide a Quantity of Hysteric Drops , being apprehensive of Fits at the Sound of the Post-horn . |
| 5 | Would I prefer simply to fit a sequence of exercises into my daily routine ? |
| 6 | I failed recently to convince a group of people on Arran that the ‘ eagle ’ they were seeing was , in fact , a buzzard . |
| 7 | But I tried always to have a quiet time with God before I started my revision that morning . |
| 8 | We also have a number of collectors , one of whom I visited recently to discover a house so piled with neatly catalogued shoe boxes full of cards that I could not see how he and I might successfully get from the front door to the kitchen without a Sherpa . |
| 9 | ‘ I stopped occasionally to photograph a design branded upon a distant hillside made up of countless squat semi-circular walls protecting a meagre crop ; or limp onion plants resemblant of hieroglyphs upon a furrowed wall ; or a track which seemed to lead to only more emptiness ’ |
| 10 | But you must be very busy and I came here to ask a favour , a big favour . |
| 11 | ‘ I came here to do a job of work , and since that quite clearly is no longer possible — I can hardly tutor a pupil who is n't even here ! — I can see not the slightest reason to stay . |
| 12 | I came here to see a Mrs Denner , to design her garden . ’ |
| 13 | I came here to record a couple of shows for Britain — and I thought that would be it . |
| 14 | ‘ I came here to find a man to kill my wife . |
| 15 | ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’ |
| 16 | In this way I hope eventually to get a better appreciation of the daily and seasonal lives of our local birds ( and a few mammals ) . |
| 17 | Having broken my ankle on one , I vowed never to ride a skateboard ever again , so Neighbours is a good substitute . |
| 18 | I suppose that at that moment , the night before I stepped ashore to build a new life , it was time to say goodbye to the old . |
| 19 | I decided therefore to make a general image of flesh . |
| 20 | And I just went along with I went inside to get a cup of tea . |
| 21 | I went there to lay a ghost . |
| 22 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 23 | ‘ He was much bigger than me and very fast , so I think I did well to get a 14–9 points verdict over the three rounds . |
| 24 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 25 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 26 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 27 | I 've yet to see a lovable moptop Inspiral Carpet in the flesh , but obviously they 're on the verge of making it here when they 're staying in the same hotel as Bruce Dickinson out of Iron Maiden . |
| 28 | Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure . |
| 29 | ‘ By the road , it seems a long way , but I need only to walk a kilometre across the fields beyond the farm . |
| 30 | ‘ I have yet to see a trailer that is anything reminiscent of the film it promotes , ’ he said . |