Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this , progress was slow , though most women compositors of seven years or so experience could apparently expect to move up to 16s : roughly half the male wage of the time . |
| 2 | Erm that 's that 's really good again you 'd only have to learn up to six add six would n't you . |
| 3 | A purpose-built waterfall will obviously have to conform visually to the site and fulfil its function of delivering water from a higher area to a pool below . |
| 4 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 5 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend mean that British industrialists do not want to go back to national plans , solemn and binding undertakings , high inflation , nationalisation , high taxation and trade union unrest ? |
| 7 | Industrialists know that that policy was a failure , and they do not want to go back to it . |
| 8 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He does not want to hold on to it . |
| 11 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 12 | She wanted no thanks , no suspicious questions , and she most certainly did not want to get close to that hard , sensuous mouth . |
| 13 | Although the majority of people would not want to revert stuffily to the strict dress code for civil servants of the 1950s , does my right hon. Friend agree that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way ? |
| 14 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 15 | Her fortitude was such that she did not need to unload on to him her emotional worries . |
| 16 | It should be made clear both that ( A + B ) does not need to add up to 100 — it is an unfortunate chance that the 80/20 or 90/10 ‘ rules ’ are so well known — and that access frequency loading will only be of benefit when A is less than B. If A were greater than B , meaning that the less active records were loaded first , file access times would be poorer than those of randomly loaded files ! |
| 17 | You name them , he 's served them , and now Richard , head waiter at Martha 's Vineyard , at the Kirklevington Country Club , Yarm , can not wait to go back to Beverly Hills and the good life . |
| 18 | She could not wait to rush up to her room to read the latest book her friend had lent her — which could be anything from The Stones of Venice to The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 19 | Fran — who flew Laura to the States for her life-saving liver and bowel operation — could not wait to ring home to Eccles , Manchester . |
| 20 | The pope did not hesitate to point out to John the advantages of seeing Otto as emperor and to Philip Augustus , the threat that a Staufen emperor would present to France if Germany was united with Sicily . |
| 21 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 22 | ‘ Thanks , ’ said Dolly , ‘ but if you do n't mind I 'd just like to go back to bed . ’ |
| 23 | I would just like to point out to anyone thinking of tackling the Lakeland Fells that a small guidebook alone is not a sufficient aid to path finding . |
| 24 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 25 | Cash 's workers did not have to go out to the sound of the factory bell or whistle , but simply went upstairs from home to workshop , and thus kept a little of the independence they prized . |
| 26 | But we do not have to go back to prehistoric times to witness the change in our diet . |
| 27 | " No , but a husband should not have to look up to his bride . " |
| 28 | ‘ You do not have to stay in to be with me , Jenna , dear , ’ she said softly . |
| 29 | She 'll just have to face up to the fact that he 's guilty , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 30 | It is widely assumed that Elders will not bother to hold on to any Scottish shares and its 23.7 per cent stake will be acquired and used as the springboard for a bid . |