Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A time-honoured method for allowing intuition to blossom is to meditate regularly — whether this means taking an inner journey , dancing , walking in the woods or listening to music . |
| 2 | In some cases , with your manager 's prior permission , you may make long distance calls or calls to directory enquiries but you will have to pay for these . |
| 3 | Secondly , these falling yields mean that it is becoming cheaper for firms and individuals to borrow by issuing new claims like bonds and equities or going to building societies , by comparison with borrowing from banks . |
| 4 | Some of these creatures are eaten , others are kept as pets or ridden to war , while the very biggest are worshipped as gods . |
| 5 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 6 | To determine the origin of the cloned IRS-PCR products , amplification products were used as probes and hybridized to Sfi I partially digested GM06318 DNA ; all 7 products tested hybridized to a fragment between 600 and 670 kb in size and multiple smaller fragments ( data not shown ) . |
| 7 | Well , it was late — the simplest answer would be to drop the book on the floor , throw off his T-shirt and his jeans , and crawl under the covers and go to sleep . |
| 8 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
| 9 | The man , in his mid-forties , was rescued by fire fighters and taken to hospital , where he was treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 10 | Shut your eyes and go to sleep . |
| 11 | Close your eyes and go to sleep . |
| 12 | I closed my eyes and began to pole . |
| 13 | Managing director Prabhdyal Sodhi told the hearing Dixon conspired to alert the health authority rather than go through the proper channels and complain to management . |
| 14 | He tried all sorts of subjects and approaches to photography and different camera formats and techniques as part of the course but doggedly stuck to his 35mm camera because of the portability , cheapness and speed of action . |
| 15 | He tried all sorts of subjects and approaches to photography and different camera formats and techniques as part of the course but doggedly stuck to his 35mm camera because of its portability , cheapness and speed of action . |
| 16 | The widely differing behaviour of EC members has prompted Britain 's prime minister , John Major , to say that a common foreign policy must go beyond mere words and extend to action , and that the Community is clearly not yet ready for that . |
| 17 | A lot of young agents and bookers come from colleges where they have started as social secretaries and begun to book bands . |
| 18 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
| 19 | One solution was to cut their losses and sell to television . |
| 20 | She shrugged her slender shoulders and submitted to fate . |
| 21 | … as a musician , you can make the course around the kids , providing that you 're offering them listening experiences from a wide range of music , and they can understand the difference between styles and approaches to composition . |
| 22 | One Sunday , after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking , he was playing at tipcat ( a predecessor of cricket ) when he suddenly heard a voice cry , ‘ Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? ’ |
| 23 | One Sunday , after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking , he was playing at tipcat ( a predecessor of cricket ) when he suddenly heard a voice cry , ‘ Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? ’ |
| 24 | Scrape pith off peel , cut peel into ½in squares and add to casserole . |
| 25 | At last he closed his books and went to bed . |
| 26 | He slipped a hot crumbling piece of fish into his mouth , placed the warm bag of chips on his knees and turned to page 11 . |
| 27 | The sons of Pinner , the true sons , are groomed in the local prep schools and dispatched to Merchant Taylors in Northwood for their private education . |
| 28 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 29 | Thirdly , should the measure be confined to business transactions or apply to consumer transactions as well ? |
| 30 | The student , Mark Edwards , visited 20 companies and talked to university scientists and administrators . |