Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 2 | The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 4 | And she would like me to go to the well women 's clinic every Wednesday it 's run . |
| 5 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 6 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 7 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 8 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 9 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 10 | ‘ Labelling theory ’ claims ( and is supported by research studies such as those just mentioned ) that catching and punishing offenders ‘ labels ’ and stigmatizes them as criminals , and that this process can in various ways make it more difficult for them to conform to a law-abiding life in future . |
| 11 | They were to suffer still further as their captors immediately stripped them of everything , even their boots , and forced them to march to the Turkish camp . |
| 12 | This will force them to progress to the fifth stage of the information process . |
| 13 | It may be easier for them to talk to a fellow inmate . ’ |
| 14 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 15 | To oblige them to belong to a national group was as likely to imprison them in an identity from which they wanted to escape as to liberate them . |
| 16 | It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith . |
| 17 | So I said , well we would have liked you to come to the full erm onty I said , but , unfortunately we were in a a very awkward position . |
| 18 | But no one is asking you to conform to a preordained career timetable or a specific direction . |
| 19 | If you are the right age and you fly in G-JOEY , the pilot will sign one of the prized certificates which enables you to belong to the exclusive Joey Club . |
| 20 | There is plenty of evidence to suggest that such a diet also helps reduce your risk of certain cancers , and it will certainly help you to keep to a sensible body weight too . |
| 21 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 22 | In order to allow all parties reasonable access to this documentation we will ask you to adhere to a strict timetable . |
| 23 | Otherwise , there should be no adverse effect on the guitar 's action or playability , unless the truss rod is on an extreme setting ( an overtightened rod , for example , would result in fretbuzz were you to change to a lighter gauge ) . |
| 24 | It would be extremely useful for you to return to the whole chapter and apply the Strategy . |
| 25 | Suppose your work requires you to move to the other end of the country , and you need to sell your home but ca n't find a buyer ; should you let it instead ? |
| 26 | Within a comprehensive school it is perfectly possible for children to be ambitious and competitive , for them to submit to a proper discipline , one imposed both by their teachers , and by the rigours of the subject itself that they are studying . |
| 27 | The remarkable quality of the New Hall collection , a voluntary assembly of donated works , and the likewise extraordinary disproportion of successful women artists in the final selection of the New Contemporaries this year seem to me to point to a crucial shift that is happening in symbolic utterance and representation : women 's bodies , women 's nature have long been ‘ good to think with ’ , their flesh has served artists as founts of meaning , allegorical and personal . |
| 28 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 29 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 30 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |