Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too . |
| 2 | Libyans seemed to listen most to broadcasts from Libya , Cairo , Tel Aviv , Saudi Arabia , London , Monte Carlo and Kuwait . |
| 3 | All UUUC candidates undertook to respond solely to their own parliamentary whip if elected . |
| 4 | How can I forget Johnny McCarthy whose humour , whose mimicry , whose abundant love of life on so many , on so many times seemed to diminish almost to extinction , those grinding moments of hopelessness . |
| 5 | Prior to these changes , Wigston was typical of many Tudor and Stuart parishes where smallholders managed to hang on to their property for generation after generation . |
| 6 | As self-professed guardians of the Empire and Britain 's national greatness the Conservatives had to face up to Britain 's relative decline as an imperial and economic power . |
| 7 | Grieving parents want to know why Grantham Hospital officials failed to react sooner to the mysterious deaths and illnesses on Allitt 's ward . |
| 8 | THE 1980s was the decade when the sleeping giants of the High Street banks tried to wake up to customers ' needs before competitors stole accounts from under their noses . |
| 9 | And she said you 'll never guess Angie how we had two fellas tried to latch on to us . |
| 10 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 11 | On May 23 , 187 political prisoners were released , while defeated or deserting government troops began to drift back to the capital . |
| 12 | Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment . |
| 13 | Despite the military superiority of the government forces , the rebels continued to hold on to territory in the south . |
| 14 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 15 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 16 | Far from there being a ‘ rearrangement of values ’ , as Titmuss believed , officials tended to cling stubbornly to entrenched attitudes . |
| 17 | PARIS — The wave of strikes that has gripped France for a month showed some signs of abating yesterday as prison officers agreed to go back to work , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required . |
| 19 | Although most of the Mondays managed to knuckle down to a daily routine , rather than the usual blurred , night-time slog , stories continued to filter back to Britain that it was n't all hunky-dory in paradise . |
| 20 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 21 | As the recital proceeded , the teachers began to drift off to their appointed confessional boxes , anxious to miss , on any excuse , as much as possible of the headmaster 's address . |
| 22 | He tells the story of one occasion when he and two friends decided to swim across to the island from Aberdour . |
| 23 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 24 | The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay . |
| 25 | As they came back into the City , buses had to slow almost to a halt to safely make the turn into Winchester Street ; it was not only steep but also had a tricky camber . |
| 26 | Thus when villages became so reduced in size that they were no longer viable their inhabitants had to move out to nearby larger settlements . |
| 27 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 28 | Above all , searchers wanted to go straight to records and were irritated by having to pass through the display of the classification schedules . |
| 29 | The Dushanbe garrison commander ( CIS armed forces ) , Col. Vyacheslav Zabolotny , said afterwards that he had ordered tanks to the KGB headquarters to stop the violence which threatened to erupt when demonstrators attempted to break in to the building . |
| 30 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |