Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 * Except for the top quality , Italian-produced no-cook pasta , such products should be avoided as they tend to taste of cardboard and have a similar texture .
2 Do you want to go with daddy and see the dickie birds ?
3 He would have preferred Grégoire to go to school and mix with other children .
4 Problems relating to Châteauroux and other lands in dispute in Berry and Auvergne were referred to a panel of arbitrators ; Richard was to marry Alice ; finally both Louis and Henry agreed to go on crusade and , in the meantime , made a mutual non-aggression pact .
5 fell Thursday night , she got up to go to toilet during night and fell , Michael was sleeping there fortunately cos he 's working in Yorkshire and she got a pain on her elbow anyway in the morning , so he took her to hospital and she 'd fractured and they operated on her , same day , two hour operation , I have n't heard anything yet have we , we rang
6 All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea .
7 We concluded that women who are successful in political careers tend to come from middle- and upper-class backgrounds and from professional occupations ; they have either been able to rely on the resources and support of their families or to have minimised the handicaps deriving from women 's status within the family by remaining unmarried or childless or by entering public life later on when their familial obligations have , to a larger degree , been completed .
8 This accounts for the fact that on cloudy nights , when there are no stars to be seen , they tend to wander off course and may even get completely lost .
9 More importantly , Weberian approaches tend to concentrate on occupation and neglect wealth as a crucial element in the class structure .
10 The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs .
11 Right , I want to go through isomerism and then go straight onto the erm e , go strai glad you made , a bit late but er
12 Women are free to choose where they want to go for advice and treatment .
13 Women are free to choose where they want to go for advice and treatment .
14 I just want to go to sleep and forget — forget it . ’
15 I just want to go to bed and get to sleep .
16 I want to go to university and this will help me achieve that goal . ’
17 And now there was a chap on the phone last night he want to go to Valley and I was trying to tell the bloke who who he between doing pickets and trying to keep count and er .
18 I want to go to school and get qualifications .
19 All you have to do is choose the date you want to go on holiday and decide on the destination and we will choose the accommodation for you — offering you an unbeatable deal on the price of your holiday .
20 For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’
21 Of course it it screws up the implementation er if you want to implement in hardware and these are n't binary weights it starts to make the the circuitry a bit more complicated .
22 ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’
23 They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice , when they want to weep with terror and self-pity .
24 The drawback , and the reason for the AS/400 H-series development continuing in parallel is that OS/400 users would need to go beyond recompilation and undertake some degree of conversion to run their applications on the new processor .
25 The drawback , and the reason for the AS/400 H-series development continuing in parallel is that OS/400 users would need to go beyond recompilation and undertake some degree of conversion to run their applications on the new processor .
26 ‘ ( 1 ) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the Court of Appeal may , if they think it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice … ( b ) order any witness who would have been a compellable witness in the proceedings from which the appeal lies to attend for examination and be examined before the court , whether or not he was called in those proceedings ; and ( c ) subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , receive the evidence , if tendered , of any witness .
27 — Plug in to the mains ( you may need to plug in player and monitor separately ) ;
28 They were n't like other infantry , drilled to stand in line and fight until they fell or fled , but skirmishers , men of judgment and initiative , who had to decide for themselves when to fire , advance , retreat , surrender , or die .
29 They will also need to know about lobbying and negotiating and how to work effectively with the bureau management committee as well as how to manage staff meetings .
30 He was good at getting people to come to work on time and to work hard .
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