Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 2 | Of course Elmer Rice 's play had been censored and toned down before coming to the screen but Photoplay still needed to ask whether ‘ the public really wants a true cross-section of life presented as it actually happens ’ . |
| 3 | They set off down the passage and the assistant sealed them in before returning to the shop . |
| 4 | Skilled negotiators avoid using irritators such as these and keep the emotional temperature down by sticking to the facts . |
| 5 | Shirley , 54 , took a year off before returning to the stage . |
| 6 | We started off by writing to the embassies in London and all of the embassies that we tried were very enthusiastic , but we were surprised a the first country that actually supplied a column was Hungary . |
| 7 | I's had quite a hang up about getting to the top of it . |
| 8 | — presenting evidence in support of and against various positions which might be taken up with regard to the issue ; |
| 9 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 10 | Police time and manpower will be taken up with travelling to the court and the number of officers available for ordinary police duties will be reduced during court sittings . |
| 11 | Think of the prospect of John Major lining up at the London Marathon , or Neil Kinnnock limbering up before taking to the squash courts . |
| 12 | More awkward still , since Laura was not on board , he was obliged to lock up before going to the office , and had to wait on board , with his brief-case and umbrella , determinedly not listening , while Nenna went down to the saloon . |
| 13 | Each hospital admission is followed up by writing to the consultant concerned to obtain a copy of the discharge summary . |
| 14 | Rocastle has really messed up by talking to the press . |
| 15 | ‘ I see it now — it 's that stupid young fool 's idea of a joke , to pay me out for objecting to the way he 's been behaving towards Rose ! |
| 16 | Feeling worn out after preaching to the thousands who flocked to hear him , he found renewed stimulation and encouragement for his ministerial labours . |
| 17 | But equally you can create suspense out of going to the very edge . |
| 18 | It is clear from the more general observations which I have set out with regard to the actual concept of establishment within the meaning of the E.E.C . |
| 19 | Although hemispheric specialisation of function has been studied mainly through the visual and auditory modalities , there has been some work carried out with regard to the sense of touch . |
| 20 | So they worry , and look back with longing to the good old , bad old days , when there always seemed to be a kind and sturdy neighbour nearby who was willing to pop in to lend a hand to the elderly and disabled , in the closer-knit communities of their youth . |
| 21 | She may look back with longing to the coffee-breaks and lunch hours she used to share with colleagues at work , which may seem in retrospect to have been so full of interest- and best of all , laughter , forgetting any strains that existed in her job . |
| 22 | As C. S. Coon has pointed out in regard to the world 's hunting peoples in general compared with urbanized people : |
| 23 | I have suggested that what Gandhi may be trying to point out by referring to the convertibility of the terms means and ends in his teaching is that our ideals not only inform the ends we aim at but also the means we employ to reach them . |
| 24 | Marie could look after the baby and I could help out by going to the shops for fags and milk and stuff like that . |
| 25 | Apart from this , children are out by going to the wrong side when a number is called out , if they unfreeze without being told or if they are the last one to do one of the organizer 's commands . |
| 26 | For a different strand of suspense , also brought about by going to the very edge , read the novels of Patricia Highsmith . |