Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retailer will use the telephone to place orders ; to get in touch with other branches or head office ; to contact the bank ; or to talk to a customer . |
| 2 | This in itself is highly significant , particularly since many New Testament scholars seem to believe that the early Christians had no sense of historical propriety and would be perfectly happy to dream up some saying and attribute it to Jesus , or to listen to a message from one of the Christian prophets in the congregation , and then put that into the mouth of the historical Jesus . |
| 3 | A self-help support group which meets once a month in the evenings ( usually the first Friday in the month ) to talk informally , or to listen to a speaker . |
| 4 | They were brought up to respect us and to go to a policeman when they were in trouble . |
| 5 | Greece and Turkey will be asked to accept that the border between them must not be changed by force , and to agree to a set of ‘ confidence-building measures ’ — pull-backs from the border , inspectors on the ground , aerial reconnaissance — to help them trust each other . |
| 6 | What a relief it is to know the name of the instrumentalist or conductor concerned and to listen to a programme of records where music takes precedence over ‘ talk for talk 's sake ’ . |
| 7 | Dwarfs are a touchy , proud race and to suggest to a Dwarf King that he should beg for anything was almost as bad as suggesting he shave off his beard . |
| 8 | Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better . |
| 9 | Where this method is used care must be taken to avoid leakages and to keep to a minimum the concentration of residual ozone remaining at the end of the reaction , as it is quite toxic with a Threshold Limit Value of 0.1 ppm . |
| 10 | Similarly , and to refer to a figure mentioned earlier , Goffman 's " dramaturgical approach " is not a theory of social behaviour but a metaphor , a way of seeing , pointing up , features of the system of interpersonal communication in public places . |
| 11 | So it was a shock this morning , after miles of deserted sands , to come into a small crowded bay : to see buckets and spades and sandcastles , a parade of shops with fishing nets and beach balls and to return to a world of people . |
| 12 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |