Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But God goes on to speak to his people of the need for obedience . |
| 2 | He said , love goes on happening to you . |
| 3 | One day , in the dim and distant future , I expect that I shall want to move into different arenas , but I imagine that I shall continue as an NCT member , not just to receive my favourite journal , New Generation but also to carry on contributing to my favourite charity . |
| 4 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 5 | On the fourth floor is Mozart House , a room which features 3,000–4,000 Mozart CDs , portraits of the maestro on the wall , and an Empire couch to sit on to listen to his music being played continually . |
| 6 | Every day of the week , Maureen Timmins and her daughter Amanda sit down to write to their friends in America . |
| 7 | Drinkers at Peter Kavanagh 's in Egerton Street , Toxteth , Liverpool , became so attached to their papier mache guy featured in last night 's Echothey launched a petition to save him . |
| 8 | The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips . |
| 9 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
| 10 | ‘ My constable in Burford is convinced you were still drunk when you rode in to speak to him . ’ |
| 11 | Confident in our own superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom , it has rarely occurred to us to question how other creatures perceive the world . |
| 12 | Once you feel confident that you know what to do and why it should be done , you can put your knowledge to the test , choosing the time and place most suited to your own circumstances . |
| 13 | Tretyakov Director Yuriy Korolev confirmed the idea of construction with him , and now Yeltsin has effectively seen to it that the project is carried out . |
| 14 | This reaction attributed evolution to pure chance and held the opinion that complex animals could not be considered better adapted to their environments than more lowly forms : all represented degrees of specialization . |
| 15 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 16 | But the behaviour of Reverend Prentice has only added to his anguish . |
| 17 | Similarly , the attempt to remove barriers to investment has merely led to their redistribution , for instead of paying rates inside Enterprise Zones firms pay higher rents and property prices ( Erikson and Syms , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | The king has prudently deferred to them . |
| 19 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 20 | For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic . |
| 21 | A good four inches taller than his companion , he bent down to speak to her . |
| 22 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 23 | They promised not to speak to their wives of what the fairy had said . |
| 24 | We have already seen that it leaves unexplained one prominent feature of judicial practice — the attitude judges take toward statutes and precedents in hard cases — except on the awkward hypothesis that this practice is designed to deceive the public , in which case the public has not consented to it . |
| 25 | I 'm sure that he has not said to you that you can do work other than your religious studies at the moment , so that 's what you should be doing but you say he has and we will check it later . |
| 26 | But success has not gone to his head . |
| 27 | Developments in safety after that time will not make the producer liable if his product has not conformed to them . |
| 28 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 29 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 30 | Anyway , he has not spoken to me all day . ’ |