Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one belongs to the physical elite for long . |
| 2 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 3 | The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 5 | And she would like me to go to the well women 's clinic every Wednesday it 's run . |
| 6 | Deciding what facts are relevant to a choice of means may be very complicated , and that the difficulties from admitting his obligation to take account of them testifies to the irresistible authority of ‘ Be aware ’ in practical decisions . |
| 7 | Perhaps they are sheepish about the efficiency or integrity of their testing systems , and unwilling to have them exposed to the public scrutiny that would follow if the banned athletes chose to take the matter further in law . |
| 8 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 9 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 10 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 11 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 12 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 13 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 14 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 15 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 16 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 17 | I repeat to the right hon. Gentleman that I have said no such thing , and neither in context has my right hon. Friend the Chancellor . |
| 18 | I mean to a certain extent I have just said them . |
| 19 | Well I mean to the untrained eye with a , this guy was suspicious when he saw all this cracked varnish |
| 20 | The structure of the fertilizer industry is divided into two , where subscript I refers to the four dominant firms and subscript 2 refers to the blenders , who act as importers of urea . |
| 21 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 22 | Nor have I referred to the minor changes made to the 1987 regulations in 1990 and 1991 , which have already been applied in the accounts of most societies and will be familiar to their preparers and auditors by now . |
| 23 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 24 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 25 | I told her : ‘ This is almost my favourite kind [ of book ] — when someone goes to a decaying country house , and finds a lot of odd people in it . |
| 26 | I only realized what it was when I got to the front door . |
| 27 | As soon as I got to the other side of the bank I threw myself down and started to roll . ’ |
| 28 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 29 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 30 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |