Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a teenager has been drawn into behaviour he would rather have avoided simply because he finds himself unable to stand up to his peers or to be the one who is ‘ different ’ . |
| 2 | Eva needed the knowledge of that power beyond her own to cling on to over the next few months . |
| 3 | Even this limited warfare showed the most independent-minded of the colonists that the English connection had some practical uses , and the English government did its best to live up to the implicit bargain that lay behind the Navigation Acts . |
| 4 | The Linny was a new and fashionable area and Elsie did her best to live up to it . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp currently owns the desktop with MS-DOS , and will do its darndest to hang on to it with Windows New Technology . |
| 6 | When are you due to go back to the hospital ? ’ |
| 7 | What information were you able to pass on to Superintendent ? |
| 8 | ‘ It does me good to come home to you , Schätzchen . |
| 9 | Late at night Modigliani persuaded them all to go back to his place to continue the discussion . |
| 10 | ‘ But now you have him somewhere under lock and key , and with nothing good to look forward to , whatever follows . |
| 11 | One company , TGS Marketing in Omaha , Nebraska , says criminals with longer sentences tend to make more devoted telemarketers — ‘ they 're looking for something stable to hang on to in their lives ’ — and it says it is not against hiring convicted murderers . |
| 12 | Jean-Claude had all the music worked out for the ‘ Chansons ’ , there was nothing to worry about there , and something good to come home to . |
| 13 | " His reputation also gives him something enormous to live up to . |
| 14 | There 's no better inspiration for shrugging off slothfulness than Glen Shiel , which rewards with such a high score of tops and something worthwhile to brag about to those who spent Saturday and Sunday vacuuming the car with a cordless hoover . |
| 15 | Ronnie Moran , who resumes the role of caretaker manager he relinquished just over a year ago when Mr Souness arrived from Glasgow Rangers to fill the vacancy created by Kenny Dalglish 's shock resignation , said : ‘ We must try to give Graeme something special to come back to in the form of the FA Cup itself . |
| 16 | As he admits , the divisions are arbitrary , but they have the advantage of making it possible to refer easily to the level of grammatical complexity in a speech sample , and to group children on the basis of language complexity . |
| 17 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 18 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |
| 19 | Under this second head the project seeks to identify the criteria by which the universities determined it appropriate to respond positively to pressures for change , and then further to define the limits within which choices about the practical nature of that response were effectively constrained . |
| 20 | There would certainly be some , including many of considerable eminence , who would not find it easy to assent unquestioningly to the proposition that it was constitutional for Parliament to ignore the terms of union at will . |
| 21 | They embarked but dense fog made it impossible to put in to Ardbeg so they were all carried to the Small Isles , Jura , then to Port Askaig and West Loch Tarbet , returning to Ardbeg next evening after 24 hours on board . |
| 22 | The evening proved to be extremely busy , and Juliet found it impossible to slip up to Hunter again . |
| 23 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 24 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 25 | James Woods finds it hard to hang on to his sanity in this comic role |
| 26 | She was elected Labour MP for Sunderland in 1929 , but , like many other women parliamentarians of the period , found it hard to break in to the House of Commons debates . |
| 27 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 28 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 29 | Her inner caution was warning her against this feeling , but was finding it hard to get through to her . |
| 30 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |