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

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1 Mr Ball gave details of the development of ECTA , and agreed to continue to look after Institute interests and to try to obtain uniformity .
2 The issue is not easy because in Botswana , Zimbabwe and South Africa elephants are doing well , and these countries understandably want to continue to trade in ivory .
3 Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) .
4 All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall .
5 And if you want to learn to type in German , Spanish , French , Italian or Dutch , it 's all here .
6 The sufferer has to learn to live in reality , blaming self rather than others for his or her own problems and recognising that unconditional love could only be received when it is equally freely given .
7 The psychiatrist Ronald Laing suggested once that ‘ to be a success in our society one has to learn to dream of failure ’ .
8 Vicar wants to charge to go to church .
9 The retailer needs to be able to plan how she uses her money , to work out how much profit she needs to make to stay in business — and to grow .
10 Falotti , long frustrated with Olsen , has decided to go to ASK as CEO .
11 From the military governor , General Uriarte , down to the lowliest officer , the Jews were made to pay to survive in business .
12 However , they demanded the creation of a national union of students and vowed to continue to fight for democracy .
13 ‘ I 'm going to try to get to college , Benny , ’ she had said , her face blazing with the intensity of it .
14 Which I would like to aim to complete by lunchtime so we can resume afresh on the others at five thirty .
15 In some of the comments which follow , we can see that students are discussing more than a subject which they happened to choose to study at college : they are discussing issues which are central to their lives .
16 ‘ A good example of the sort of player who should be a great beneficiary of this scheme is James Lenton — a tremendously hard worker who has struggled financially and once even had to quit to resort to coaching , ’ Lewis added .
17 One of the methods that the business intends to use to stay on top is now coming into play .
18 Well if we 're going to start to go into funding , I 'd rather this went into the pink paper session , and that we have our Chief Executives down here to explain that situation .
19 My old man said he 's erm , he used to go down to er , every , every sort of six months or so , cos they were in he was in charge of fucking then , he 'd used to have to go on manoeuvre 's about sort of six monthly or something like that
20 Yet some people seem to learn to live with imperfection and others find it an impenetrable barrier .
21 As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us .
22 In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances .
23 And say ‘ look , part of growing up means that you 're going to have to deal with nastiness
24 One of the things museums are going to have to do in future is take over their buildings .
25 ‘ He 's going to have to go to sleep soon , anyway , ’ said Masklin .
26 According to Mr Horner , ‘ commercial decisions are going to have to take into account the environmental costs of cleaning land that may have been contaminated ’ .
27 Yes they are indeed , there going to have to compete on price as well as on service and value added .
28 We 've been to Penthurst , I think we 're going to have to stay at home .
29 And you can report that because this baby 's going to need to go to hospital right so those are the three things you do , you raise the room temperature , erm you cuddle the baby close to your own body which should be warm , removing any excess layers , you can then wrap a blanket around yourself and the baby , if you can , give it a warm drink but you , you may , may not be able to do that , you take the baby 's temperature and you seek medical advice right Is that quite clear ?
30 Her mother , Avril , felt trapped , tired and depressed , hemmed in by the demands of a fretful strong-willed toddler , ten-year-old John , who was beginning to refuse to go to school , and her ‘ selfish ’ husband , James .
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