Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | And she would like me to go to the well women 's clinic every Wednesday it 's run . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 5 | They were to suffer still further as their captors immediately stripped them of everything , even their boots , and forced them to march to the Turkish camp . |
| 6 | This will force them to progress to the fifth stage of the information process . |
| 7 | He thought it a fine idea , and presently excused himself — returning with a bottle of Mrs Westaway 's cowslip wine , in which to drink to the new venture . |
| 8 | This is my pivot on which to turn to the last , and I think most important category of what you call the breakdown of law and order , because it leads us to concentrate our attention not on the silent majority but on another point in society . |
| 9 | Stephen signalled to Orson , the head waiter , who almost fell over himself to get to the Prime Minister . |
| 10 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 11 | It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith . |
| 12 | So I said , well we would have liked you to come to the full erm onty I said , but , unfortunately we were in a a very awkward position . |
| 13 | If you are the right age and you fly in G-JOEY , the pilot will sign one of the prized certificates which enables you to belong to the exclusive Joey Club . |
| 14 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 15 | It would be extremely useful for you to return to the whole chapter and apply the Strategy . |
| 16 | Suppose your work requires you to move to the other end of the country , and you need to sell your home but ca n't find a buyer ; should you let it instead ? |
| 17 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 18 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 19 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 20 | Episcopal persecution , however , drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s . |
| 21 | Every type of restaurant and café will have something to appeal to the health-conscious customer — though , in some places , like pubs and snack bars , you may have to look a little harder . |
| 22 | Are we to jump to the unlikely conclusion that John 's heart has at last been melted by the love of a good woman ? |
| 23 | Her paper The Eidoli and the Angeli is not a suitable one to read to the little study group which meets in a neighbour 's house : the group , it transpires , is actually in touch with the world of spirits . |
| 24 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |
| 25 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 26 | On the afternoon of the day when her father had refused to buy her a book , Matilda set out all by herself to walk to the public library in the village . |
| 27 | Claudia Yeo closed her eyes and forced herself to speak to the empty space behind the desk . |
| 28 | This present trip represents , after all , a rare opportunity for me to savour to the full the many splendours of the English countryside , and I know I shall greatly regret it later if I allow myself to become unduly diverted . |
| 29 | THE Hampshire Playing Fields Association have just launched a £250,000 public appeal to enable them to respond to the ever-increasing demands for support of sport and recreational projects throughout the county . |
| 30 | Trust him to go to the other extreme . |