Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If allowed to go overripe , barley ears tend to fall off the stems , and heavy losses can occur . |
| 2 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 3 | Here and there was the occasional flower bed ; the lilies and other wild flowers struggling to thrive amongst the brambles and weeds . |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher , on the other hand , claimed that previous Tory leaders had agreed on the country 's problems and what needed to be done — cutting public expenditure and direct taxation , reforming the unions , and restoring the incentives and financial disciplines of the free market — but failed to carry through the policies . |
| 5 | See really all you need to do is pull it , you 've got two posts , how high do you want to go with the posts , about that high ? |
| 6 | I do n't really want to go over the grounds which you know you would seek to weigh different erm locations . |
| 7 | I did n't want to go through the arguments for and against . |
| 8 | Remarkably , when she was given ungrammatical sentences to repeat , she often produced a grammatically correct version : she repeated ‘ She write she mother a letter ’ as ‘ She wrote her mother a letter ’ , and ‘ Do you want to go movies ? ’ as ‘ Do you want to go to the movies ? ’ . |
| 9 | But I 'm not really planning to be a hermit ; my brother 's coming over soon , and I know he 'll want to go to the islands , so we 'll be in touch . |
| 10 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 11 | He does n't want to go to the police . |
| 12 | That 's why you do n't want to go to the police . |
| 13 | If you do not want to go to the police , ring Sunday Life on Belfast 331133 ext 4316 and your message will be passed on to the McDermotts . |
| 14 | This is n't the kind of thing we 'd want to see in the minutes , is it ? ’ |
| 15 | As for George Chambers , I 'd prefer to go on the streets than become his . |
| 16 | For as long as these conditions persist , and until a comprehensive range of services is developed to cope with the needs of parents with older mentally handicapped children and adults , there will still be a need for mental handicap hospitals , and there will still be young people being admitted to them . |
| 17 | Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap . |
| 18 | He 's helping to drive in the ewes for a mass ante natal clinic . |
| 19 | The idea was to start a volunteer counselling service for adult victims of incest and abuse , but the response to Christine 's appeal was so great that ICAIRR is now struggling to cope with the demands on its services . |
| 20 | Life for a single parent was never easy — struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby , while at the same time trying to hold down a job . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , it has no effect on the larval stage in the eggs and further applications may need to be given to cope with the larvae as they hatch . |
| 22 | Prove you can safely right a capsized dinghy and anchor off a rocky beach , and we 'll let you loose to cruise in the areas covered by our safety arrangements for each day . |
| 23 | Prove you can safely right a capsized dinghy and anchor off a rocky beach , and we 'll let you loose to cruise in the areas covered by our safety arrangements for each day . |
| 24 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 25 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 26 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 27 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 28 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |
| 29 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 30 | While I do not want to detract from the bilinguals ' versatility or the value of their multicultural experience , I will argue in this chapter that in fact monolinguals have broadly the same range of linguistic " powers " as bilinguals have , though sometimes these are manifested in other ways . |