Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 2 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His name and achievements became better known to the general public , however , in the sphere of lighter music : in operetta rather than in opera , and above all in the stage works of Franz Lehár , in which he charmed thousands by his sympathetic tenor quality and by the grace and variety of his vocal inflections . |
| 5 | With a very limited manufacturing base and agricultural production of foodstuffs insufficient to feed the country , Zambia became highly exposed to the vagaries of international markets . |
| 6 | I remember the boy rose once to go to the bathroom , his thin , adolescent frame weaving in pain . |
| 7 | In order to make this facility useful , it is recommended that an organisation-wide policy be adopted ; e.g. ‘ Errors reported always apply to the module which first detects the error , not the reporting module ’ . |
| 8 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 9 | It should be noted that although the system described often refers to the particular data for on-line cursive script recognition , the techniques used are equally applicable to other forms of recognition . |
| 10 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 11 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 12 | On arms control , China agreed conditionally to accede to the 18-country Missile Technology Control Regime , which would limit its arms sales to Pakistan and Syria , in return for the lifting of US sanctions , imposed in June , on exports from two Chinese arms companies , high-technology computer sales and joint satellite launches . |
| 13 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 14 | In Russia he 'd mostly listened to the progressive rock records that cool Russian youth adored . |
| 15 | But if we 're not wanted , you 'd better talk to the chief . |
| 16 | Anyway , I suppose I 'd better go to the surgery , if I must see him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd better go to the zoo and live with the animals . |
| 18 | tablets are finished , I 'd better go to the doc |
| 19 | " I think I 'd better go to the loo , " she said , then looked at him . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd better go to the doctor , ’ said Apricot . |
| 21 | I 'd better go to the embassy to check if anything 's actually happened today . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better come to the flat with me for a start , as soon as the warrant arrives . |
| 23 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 24 | The manic international campaign to prevent publication of Peter Wright 's Spycatcher advertised to the world an obsession with secrecy that seemed better suited to the other side of the Iron Curtain . |
| 25 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
| 26 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 27 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 28 | And you 'd best go to the toilet before you leave . |
| 29 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 30 | He 'd always gone to the fields long before Edward was up for school , but today he was still wrapping his lunchtime bread and cheese in a cloth . |