Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvard dealers who had left knew better than to say where to , since the walk out of its top dealers to London & Norwich Investment Services Ltd in May 1987 . |
| 2 | The terrain being flat , the wind tore across scrub and heathland unimpeded , and the snow it drove ahead of itself banked against our cottage , so that to get out to the pump we had to dig ourselves a path . |
| 3 | I became numb again to discomfort to a useful degree and plodded on methodically taking continual bearings , breathing carefully , aiming performance just below capability so as to last out to the end . |
| 4 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 5 | Testing will be revised so as to add less to teachers ' workloads . |
| 6 | In this more temperate climate , we can see that rock 's estate is a grand one , and it 's tempting to tramp its grounds — necessary , perhaps , if only so as to have somewhere to ‘ go ’ . |
| 7 | Ned went out by a parallel track , the Caples , so as to get back to Queenstown for New Year festivities . |
| 8 | Furthermore , although I recognise that the powers of the Director are circumscribed by section 1(3) and the opening words of section 2(1) , so as to relate only to the investigation of suspected offences , it remains true that the powers which I have summarised are concerned with ‘ the affairs ’ of the suspect , and these must to my mind extend beyond the matters which have caused the charge to be laid . |
| 9 | We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time . |
| 10 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 11 | He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant . |