Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grace had tried to persuade John long before to go to ballet classes , because she thought him small for his age and hoped the exercise might encourage growth , but he refused , saying ‘ Oh no , mummy , the boys will call me a sissy . ’ |
| 2 | We want big changes and we want them quickly , but we can not see clearly enough how to set to work . |
| 3 | It will be easiest to explain the principles of heredity with the traits in which they were originally discovered , and only then to turn to behaviour . |
| 4 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 5 | God gives enough evidence of Christ risen to call to faith , but not enough to compel to acceptance … |
| 6 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 7 | So when , late that night as I was just about to go to bed , I heard a discreet knock at the door , I was not amazed to find a waiter in a claw-hammer coat pulling a heavily laden food trolley into my room . |
| 8 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |
| 9 | Although advances in urban dialectology are certainly a by-product of his methods , his principal objectives were to use variable data as a means of elucidating processes of linguistic change and more generally to contribute to core linguistic theory ( cf. 5.2.1 ) . |
| 10 | Nowadays , people have more time than ever before to devote to leisure and recreation . |
| 11 | I ca n't see the education committee , with their lack of money , paying for transport for children out here to go to hospital to do a garden |