Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr G. Hefter and Dr P. M. May have tried wittily to come to the rescue , but by misinterpreting the ‘ obituary ’ ( Chem . |
| 2 | The West Belfast MP said the Stormont discussions were not designed to criticise the police , but rather to relate to the Minister the fear felt in the city . |
| 3 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 4 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |
| 5 | Therefore , since the sellers ' breach had not been serious enough to go to the root of the contract , the buyers were entitled only to damages . |
| 6 | But Henry was hellbent on getting Finch up , hellbent enough to go to the analyst on his behalf . |
| 7 | Nobody who was lucky enough to go to the city 's Usher Hall can have forgotten the splendid Dies Irae . |
| 8 | I lost some weight and felt ill enough to go to the doctor who sent me to hospital in Northallerton . |
| 9 | But she 'd still let herself be fool enough to cling to the wisp of hope there might be someone of position who saw things different . |
| 10 | Sunday was not much better ; Miss Huntley had not risen from her bed until one p.m. and had not left the flat until five , then only to go to the cinema . |
| 11 | Scouts had only to go to the North-east , the Birmingham area or any of the thickly populated districts to discover several players almost up to the top League standard . |
| 12 | They do not even have to be rocks deposited under fresh water conditions , because wood and seeds are perfectly capable of drifting long distances before becoming waterlogged enough to sink to the bottom of the sea . |
| 13 | Well next spring , in May of next year , we 're looking to put a trip together to go to the northwest of the country , to Old Trafford , obviously er Manchester United 's home ground , also to Anfield and also to a couple of er other places that are n't sort of sporty but I 'm sure will interest you . |
| 14 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 15 | Neil get out of his aircraft obviously to go to the telephone . |
| 16 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 17 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |
| 18 | One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus . |
| 19 | Anderson , confused by the situation , attempts repeatedly to assert himself , but is allowed only to listen to the match on the radio . |
| 20 | And so an uneasy , smiling peace was patched up — enough to last to the weekend , and with all the year to mend in . |
| 21 | A summary can hardly do justice to the corpus as a whole , but it is easy enough to point to the settlement 's principal weaknesses . |
| 22 | 5.13.2 If called upon to do so to furnish to the Landlord the Surveyor or any person acting as the third party determining the rent in default of agreement between the parties under any provisions for rent review contained in this Lease such information as may [ reasonably ] be requested in writing in relation to any pending or intended step under the 1954 Act or the implementation of any provisions for rent review This seems quite innocuous but an unreasonable landlord could become a nuisance and apart from ensuring that " reasonably " is included , the tenant should also begin each subclause as follows : If called upon to do so ( but not more frequently than may be reasonable ) |
| 23 | The overall length of gas pipeline in the USSR was planned to reach 300,000km by 1984 — enough to stretch to the moon and back . |
| 24 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |
| 25 | It was wrong to value it , wrong to bear children even , for that was only to add to the sum of suffering . |
| 26 | That enemy was-must have been — cunning enough to transfer to the boy . |
| 27 | I was reassured that the nonsense would stop , and that people would use the bikes merely to get to the base of mountains , where the walk in was prohibitive of completing the hill in a day without some means of transport . |
| 28 | Once you 'd confirmed my suspicions it did n't take long to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 29 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 30 | ‘ When I 've seen you safely on the train , I should still have time enough to get to the auction . ’ |