Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year 's Welsh Office waiting list initiative offering particular operations at certain centres was not a great success in Clwyd when patients showed little enthusiasm to travel to South Wales or Bangor for hip , knee and eye operations . |
| 2 | erm Peter wants to tighten up on on on the business of erm carrying holidays over and I think he 's right , actually , erm and he also is using this opportunity to try to et us to plan our holidays as a group so that we 're not all off at the same time , or if it 's appropriate we should all be off a the same time then we 're off at the same time , but it 's erm common sense should prevail one way or another , but it would be a good idea if you could let me have erm a brief indication of any major times you plan to be away . |
| 3 | ‘ The Face never wanted this case to come to court and every effort was made to settle the dispute , without success . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Face never wanted this case to come to court and every effort was made to settle the dispute , without success . ’ |
| 5 | I 've made a few attempts to try to potty train her without any success . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've paid all this money to come to Hawaii and all you can do is screw around . ’ |
| 7 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 8 | I may look for another opportunity to talk to Mrs Tate . ’ |
| 9 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
| 10 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 11 | His father had provided for this title to pass to Charles if his brother inherited the earldom of Arundel ; but when this occurred in 1677 Henry refused to give up the title , and Charles took the case to Chancery , in 1682 obtaining a celebrated decision in his favour by Heneage Finch , first Earl of Nottingham [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | If I was the chief rozzer on this case , I 'd have some questions to put to Theo , I can tell you ! ’ |
| 13 | This superiority in the visuo-spatial domain has been found in some studies to extend to perception of the third dimension . |
| 14 | This has been a major problem in Kent , Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , and most notoriously at Halvergate , where there have also been acidity problems , causing some farmers to have to jet their drains every year . |
| 15 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 16 | It is difficult for some people to come to grips with the fact that children do not have a higher priority than partners , because some people feel that the purpose of marriage is producing children and therefore it should be the highest priority . |
| 17 | The police searched surrounding buildings and then asked some staff to return to shops and begin their own search . |
| 18 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |
| 19 | ‘ As to that , ’ answered her spouse , pushing her inexorably towards the waiting gig , ‘ there may be another way to go to work . |
| 20 | I often go this way to walk to Brigflatts , a very special building that lies a field back from the river Rawthey near the Sedbergh to Kendal road . |
| 21 | The vehemence and the unanimity with which this judgment has now been condemned indicates , for the first time , a wish in this country to come to terms with Vichy . |
| 22 | The highlight is ‘ Nhan Tin ’ ( or missing persons ) , which gives individual inmates a few moments to appeal to relatives living in America , Canada or Australia . |
| 23 | No but I like her and everything but holy shit , I really I do need some time to go to school and like be by myself . |
| 24 | Well let's assume deducted expectations model is a reasonable model of expectations formation right call that equation number one right , so our adaptive expectations model is E T minus one , so that 's E T right , minus E T minus two into P T minus one right , so that equals gamma into P T minus one , minus E T minus two P T minus one right so that 's the same expression as we had before , right that 's the our ad our adapted expectations model , that 's , that 's how we 're assuming that expectations are generated right , or revised right so , we 're incorporating expectations into this model but we also want to incorporate the fact that farmers take some time to respond to changes in price alright . |
| 25 | There have been earlier references to the changing and elastic notion of priorities which takes some time to come to terms with . |
| 26 | Cec was a clever , goalscoring inside or centre-forward although , as his career records show , he took some time to come to terms with the standard required in Division Two of the Football League . |
| 27 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 28 | Scotland , at least , have had some time to adjust to conditions here . |
| 29 | Under Chilean law a 15-year deadline for such cases to go to court would expire on Sept. 21 . |
| 30 | At the same time it is not altogether clear how much weight to attach to figures quoted in the charged atmosphere of a hearing by the Royal Commission in 1517 . |