Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all right for me — I can close my eyes for a moment , and stroke my beard , and make little gasping noises to myself . |
| 2 | Most of them will go : the communal celebration draws them , they need to gather together to bid farewell to the 1970s , they need to reinforce their own expectations by witnessing those of others , by observing who is in , who is out , who is up , who is down . |
| 3 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 4 | In the first place , it was quite useless to preach ready made doctrine to them . |
| 5 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 6 | The first stage , of direct military rule , sought merely to suppress opposition to Japanese control — a short-lived republic was declared in 1895 — and wipe out the widespread banditry and disturbances which had long plagued the island under Chinese rule . |
| 7 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 8 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 9 | Hungarian football has since fallen victim to the corruption and match-fixing scandals . |
| 10 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 11 | This proposition forms the basis of Stenhouse 's concept of the ‘ teacher-as-researcher ’ : an idea which he developed in the context of the Humanities Curriculum Project ( HCP ) , and which has since influenced approaches to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation ( especially teacher self-evaluation ) . |
| 12 | By giving it over to Bull , IBM has effectively said goodbye to the French market for the RS/6000 . |
| 13 | Taking the Report as a whole , the Commission has naturally paid attention to the different interests of those involved in the day to day running of the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | The last two used together allow tests to be performed without affecting the operands . |
| 15 | We are grateful for the loose change of Messrs Lonsdale and Pugh , but let me assure you all , with a family-sized packet of Fisherman 's Friend extra throat lozenges placed firmly on my heart , that I will strive in ever-decreasing circles to bring the sponsorship of a major international to ‘ The Tip ’ to provide much needed support to our glorious team . |
| 16 | In his article ‘ Polonium : Windscale 's most lethal legacy ’ ( New Scientist 31 March , p 873 ) John Urquhart has rightly drawn attention to the omission from consideration of polonium-210 in the National Radiological Protection Board 's report on the 1957 Windscale reactor fire . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend has rightly drawn attention to the progress that has already been made . |
| 18 | Since the analyst has only limited access to what a speaker intended , or how sincerely he was behaving , in the production of a discourse fragment , any claims regarding the implicatures identified will have the status of interpretations . |
| 19 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |
| 20 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 21 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 22 | To have been the driver of a lorry trying to provide desperately needed aid to besieged people . |
| 23 | Fianna Fail means " Soldiers of Destiny " , Fine Gael is " the Tribe of the Gaels " , and indeed " tribal " has aptly characterized allegiance to both parties . |
| 24 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 25 | After years of frustration in the European arena , Wednesday 's success has finally carried Rangers to the threshold of untold riches . |
| 26 | This may have been the collection that has finally established medium to good pieces of this period as part of the mainstream of serious American furniture collecting . |
| 27 | It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory . |
| 28 | Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her . |
| 29 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 30 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |