Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr G. Hefter and Dr P. M. May have tried wittily to come to the rescue , but by misinterpreting the ‘ obituary ’ ( Chem . |
| 2 | The West Belfast MP said the Stormont discussions were not designed to criticise the police , but rather to relate to the Minister the fear felt in the city . |
| 3 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 4 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 5 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |
| 6 | They 're not old enough to go to the pubs , or they do n't seem old enough , so they just go down the park and get drunk . |
| 7 | Therefore , since the sellers ' breach had not been serious enough to go to the root of the contract , the buyers were entitled only to damages . |
| 8 | But Henry was hellbent on getting Finch up , hellbent enough to go to the analyst on his behalf . |
| 9 | Exit offended alter-ego with money enough to go to the pictures . |
| 10 | Nobody who was lucky enough to go to the city 's Usher Hall can have forgotten the splendid Dies Irae . |
| 11 | I lost some weight and felt ill enough to go to the doctor who sent me to hospital in Northallerton . |
| 12 | But she 'd still let herself be fool enough to cling to the wisp of hope there might be someone of position who saw things different . |
| 13 | Sunday was not much better ; Miss Huntley had not risen from her bed until one p.m. and had not left the flat until five , then only to go to the cinema . |
| 14 | Scouts had only to go to the North-east , the Birmingham area or any of the thickly populated districts to discover several players almost up to the top League standard . |
| 15 | They do not even have to be rocks deposited under fresh water conditions , because wood and seeds are perfectly capable of drifting long distances before becoming waterlogged enough to sink to the bottom of the sea . |
| 16 | Well next spring , in May of next year , we 're looking to put a trip together to go to the northwest of the country , to Old Trafford , obviously er Manchester United 's home ground , also to Anfield and also to a couple of er other places that are n't sort of sporty but I 'm sure will interest you . |
| 17 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 18 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 20 | Neil get out of his aircraft obviously to go to the telephone . |
| 21 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything was just perfect , ’ he said , ‘ but when one is fortunate enough to come to the Chewton Glen , it has to be right … the standard is so high . |
| 23 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 24 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |
| 25 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 26 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 27 | The British reader has only to listen to the sounds that protest makes in his own streets , to the cruel , brutal voices that bellow over loudhailers about injustice and the disadvantaged . |
| 28 | One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus . |
| 29 | Anderson , confused by the situation , attempts repeatedly to assert himself , but is allowed only to listen to the match on the radio . |
| 30 | Will my hon. Friend continue not only to listen to the representations , but to act on them in every way possible ? |