Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 2 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 4 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 5 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 6 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 7 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 8 | In some of his experiments the rats were rolling along to get to the food in the goal-box . |
| 9 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 10 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 11 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 12 | Applying the multiplier of eighteen to that figure , one arrives at a figure of fifty eight thousand one hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty pence which when the additional costs are added in comes to the total of fifty nine thousand and forty three pence , I 'm sorry , fifty nine thousand forty three pounds and seventy five pence which is the figure I would award under this heading . |
| 13 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 14 | I kept on listening to the show . |
| 15 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 16 | Teeth flashing very white in his mahogany , sweat-beaded face , he ran lightly over to talk to the band and Tara came barefoot over to their table . |
| 17 | It 's the window he 's stepping through to wave to the crowd . |
| 18 | Bob said : ‘ We have to generate enough income to pay for our able-bodied staff , our overheads and have enough left over to contribute to the cost of employing disabled people . |
| 19 | All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village . |
| 20 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 21 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 22 | That 's why I kept putting it off to go to the doctor to get help 'cos I thought that , with me having kids , he would automatically ring the social services and tell them . |
| 23 | After a cursory check , Myeloski went off to talk to the guard at the gate and find a torch . |
| 24 | There 's nothing wrong with that ’ — STEVE TSHWETE ( ANC executive ) on suggestions that the New Zealand tour to South Africa should be called off owing to the Boipatong massacre . |
| 25 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 26 | You would also be billed for help in rescuing a cat from a tree — you 'd be better off going to the RSPCA who will save your moggy cost-free . |
| 27 | You may be better off going to the RSPCA , which is free |
| 28 | But the accident has n't put him off taking to the road himself . |
| 29 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 30 | ‘ After his pneumonia had been diagnosed by the Senior Surgical Officer the diagnosis was confirmed at Mr Leland 's request by the Senior Medical Officer , ’ Sister added , then broke off to explain to the night junior , a second-year , that this was routine hospital etiquette when a surgical patient produced a medical complaint , or vice versa . |