Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 2 | When the ‘ meaning ’ theist believes , he or she lives within and reacts to the same world as the unbeliever . |
| 3 | But elsewhere in Europe it lives on and refers to new ways of working with groups , especially those on the margins . |
| 4 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 5 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 6 | In the past year the number of catalogued CD-ROM titles has more than doubled to more than 2,000 and looks likely to continue to grow just as fast . |
| 7 | And in the same period the government 's tax revenue has more than doubled to S$12.1bn . |
| 8 | Since then , the population has more than doubled to 300,000 ( see BBC WILDLIFE , February 1989 ) , but the RDC has never used its compulsory control powers . |
| 9 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |
| 10 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 11 | The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 . |
| 12 | Then she stands up and crosses to the other armchair . |
| 13 | It seems not , for Philip Swallow immediately removes his hand , stands up and moves to the window . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ She rings up and complains to James that she has n't any money and she wants this and she wants that . |
| 15 | A month ago this fish developed pop-eye , but eats well and seems to be in good health otherwise . |
| 16 | We interpret everything that happens here as happening to the man we met in the living room who is now at a club . |
| 17 | He then drives home and writes to a climbing magazine detailing his new routes . |
| 18 | The warmth and elegance of Davis 's style was made immediately apparent in the first movement of the Ireland Sonata No. 1 , with its engagingly lyrical main tune which almost sits up and begs to be liked . |
| 19 | What I shall be arguing is that this is not simply because the kids are so difficult , nor because teachers are intrinsically powder-kegs of suppressed rage , but because the way most decent people view the world — their implicit personal philosophy if you like — breaks down when pushed to the limit and delivers misguided answers to difficult questions . |
| 20 | For example , the man may travel to work each day by car and so carry an extra £20 with him just in case his vehicle breaks down and needs to be repaired at once . |
| 21 | What olfactory sense is logic endowed with that it sniffs out and runs to ground the hidden nature of things ? |
| 22 | Because — no harm in saying it once again — this is the essence of the private-eye novel : that its hero actively goes out and grabs to himself the facts that he needs . |
| 23 | He points out that according to the recollections of Dr Sandison , Deputy Superintendent from 1954 to 1964 , it had been difficult to fill the beds at Powick with patients admitted from the county and that admissions from such places as Birmingham , outside the catchment area , often of severely disabled people , were accepted . |
| 24 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 25 | Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground . |
| 26 | For more information call Mark Hopes on or write to him at British Coal Marketing Department , Hobart House , Grosvenor Place , London SW1X 7AE . |
| 27 | When using HP paper as much pastel falls away as sticks to the sheet . |
| 28 | It was designed for lines of 4lb to 8lb b.s. , but feels best when married to a line of 6lbs b.s . |
| 29 | From time to time he wanders off and chats to someone . |
| 30 | Where tenants in the worst flats have tried to paper the walls , the paper either falls off or clings to the surface with the mildew . |