Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents seek right to sue over injury to foetus |
| 2 | Well more misery for Forest another defeat more injuries less to go from strength to strength and we 'll be right back . |
| 3 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 4 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 5 | It seemed far too insignificant to be holding back a lake large enough to stretch from London to the Scottish borders . |
| 6 | Quill-written characters consist of a series of more-or-less straight strokes , simple enough for a computer to turn into numbers and analyse , but complex enough to vary from scribe to scribe . |
| 7 | The family became rich enough to send VS Naipaul to university in England . |
| 8 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 9 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 10 | Emilio Segre was one kid , and Bruno Pontecorvo , later to defect from Britain to the Soviet Union , another . |
| 11 | She had heard that my father was preparing now to go to Somerset to be with the other Hastings folk . |
| 12 | They used to let him up here to practise from time to time . ’ |
| 13 | For a fee , companies can use the facilities here to experiment on improvements to their products without the worry of investing in costly equipment themselves . |
| 14 | So Zuwaya said it was indecent for a father and his sons to listen together to women drumming at circumcisions , or to go to weddings together — even to speak about weddings to each other . |
| 15 | Ann Butler had written to Uncle Nathan in Leeds to say that when Sarah went there to act as bridesmaid to her sister Christiana , she would stay on to be his new housekeeper . |
| 16 | They were up at 5 am to travel by train to Elstree to get there by 7 am . |
| 17 | He pointed to ‘ Pergoles ’ and she lifted her head again to look from side to side . |