Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've got to make you look respectable for going to bed with , have n't I ? |
| 2 | Many women these days feel rather guilty about admitting to loneliness . |
| 3 | For long periods throughout my childhood I was afraid of going to sleep , afraid of the extinction brought by sleep . |
| 4 | Being afraid of going to hell after you die is one . |
| 5 | As will be seen below , the position is different with regard to loss of amenities : in such a case damages are awarded for the lost amenity even if the plaintiff is not aware of the loss . |
| 6 | It was quite different from going to school in London . |
| 7 | Little did the bargeman know that he would be instrumental in bringing to justice the most hated woman of her time . |
| 8 | The supreme court found guerrilla leaders Hiroko Nagata , 48 , and Hiroshi Sakaguchi , 46 , guilty of torturing to death 12 comrades they had labelled traitors and shooting dead two policemen and a civilian during a ten-day siege . |
| 9 | She was now fearful about returning to school , but agreed to discuss this with her tutor . |
| 10 | Whatever your past experience or clinical area of expertise , you may still feel apprehensive and nervous about returning to practice , even after completing a re-entry programme . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 12 | The Republicans were fortunate in coming to power at a time of growing prosperity . |
| 13 | HMIP 's policing function will be crucial in bringing to book companies that pollute air and waterways . |
| 14 | This is similar to turning to page 23 in the account book . |
| 15 | Personal papers , diaries and autobiographies are exceedingly valuable for bringing to light how past parents coped with the difficult task of rearing their children . |
| 16 | ‘ How does one recognise the men who are worthy of assigning to man-the-instrument his role and function ? |
| 17 | Her castle was quite unique in regard to construction , and the site was a novel one . |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is regrettable that the same unions that stopped the sick from getting to hospital in 1978 and 1979 are showing the same callous disregard — or at least their leaderships are doing so — for the needs of patients ? |
| 19 | When compared with the IP 3 Rs on the ER , putative plasma membrane receptors are less specific with regard to InsP 4 ( refs 75 , 76 ) . |
| 20 | Make lists of words which have the same stress pattern , keeping the lists as consistent as possible with regards to CV pattern and segmental length . |
| 21 | The shock is usually administered either to both sides of the head or to the side considered on a priori grounds to be non-dominant with regard to language functions . |
| 22 | ‘ It has a full complement , a crew , an armoury and is good for putting to sea at a moment 's notice . ’ |
| 23 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 24 | Sleep onset time was reduced from 33 minutes during baseline recordings to less than 5 minutes by the seventh night , and time spent awake after going to sleep was reduced from about 30 minutes to virtually zero . |
| 25 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 26 | Frank Johnson of Canterbury finds that after repeated playings of the National Anthem the herons get tired of standing to attention on one leg and leave . |
| 27 | It is now more than ever clear that every section of society needs to be involved in responding to AIDS , including the churches . |
| 28 | I 'm not all that religious , I reckon you can be good without goin' to Church , and that , but I know wickedness when I see it , and it ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 29 | The effect of the premedication did help Mr Reynolds to relax for a short while prior to going to theatre . |
| 30 | Avoid all stimulant drugs at least two hours prior to going to bed . |