Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
| 2 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 3 | In early 1958 he received a stream of well-placed visitors during his fortnightly trips to the capital . |
| 4 | To a pragmatist , such as I proudly claim to be , It was difficult to see why this issue should become a hanging matter . |
| 5 | If something needed doing Eva Burrows did n't look around for someone else to see to it . |
| 6 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 7 | This is the tone about which least needs to be said , and which is usually regarded as more or less ‘ neutral ’ . |
| 8 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 9 | Membership : 7 countries — Benin , Burkina , Côte d'Ivoire , Mali , Mauritania , Niger , Senegal — all of whom also belong to the wider ECOWAS . |
| 10 | ‘ The first and the last of Mr Dickens 's works were aptly set here in Rochester , ’ she informed the party , all of whom then turned to her under the impression she was leading the party , earning another glare from Samuel . |
| 11 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 12 | ‘ There is a part of me still wants to be back in Bosnia and if I get the chance I 'll be there like a shot . ’ |
| 13 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 14 | More of them probably remain to be identified , particularly where there were important royal centres in Saxon times . |
| 15 | In her interesting and vivid description of the first wave Marjorie Cosens quoted numerous testimonies by teachers to this effect , and some of them even wrote to the Board of Education . |
| 16 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 17 | Thus all eleven of the zonal ammonites of the Lower Lias ( basal Jurassic ) belong to different genera and only two of them even belong to the same subfamily . |
| 18 | Egyptians like an underdog ; many of them privately admit to thinking that , whatever his faults , Saddam has guts for standing up to Uncle Sam . |
| 19 | Eventually , one of them tactfully suggested to Philip V that the perpetual alliance should simply be sworn , and also a mutual oath not to harbour enemies or those banished from either kingdom . |
| 20 | The result represented a victory for the " moderate " current associated with President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , already apparently favoured by the pre-election screening which eliminated about a third of the prospective candidates — most of them reportedly belonging to the more radical faction . |
| 21 | A minority of them never went to B at all , but went straight to A and searched , like the others , at a visibly empty space . |
| 22 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 23 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
| 24 | There 's millions of junkies and not one of them ever wanted to be a junkie . ’ |
| 25 | Some of them indeed seemed to be at the service , looking somehow different from the ‘ office workers ’ for whom the services had been arranged . |
| 26 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 27 | No messenger of his ever went to Rome in the early years of Henry I 's reign without pressing for a papal confirmation of Canterbury 's primacy . |
| 28 | There was no question of his ever returning to the office , or of carrying on the firm . |
| 29 | Not that there was any real danger of his ever mattering to her . |
| 30 | They are strengthened by the return of Matt Kerr and Phil Houlton and will hope to carry on the momentum of one of their best starts to a season for years . |