Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 2 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 3 | To air clothes when there is no airing cupboard is not only a chore , but an expensive one , while to fail to air all the unworn clothes is frequently to write them off to mildew . |
| 4 | ‘ Hear , hear , ’ they said uneasily , raising glasses , and Lydia began to coax everyone through to dinner . |
| 5 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't want a sick woman on my hands — to have to break my journey to cart you off to hospital . ’ |
| 7 | She gave a little shake of her head as if to pull herself back to reality . |
| 8 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 9 | you want to talk them back to safety ; |
| 10 | If you are totally fed up , one extra bar of chocolate or cake or any one single luxury item is not going to set you back to square one . |
| 11 | ‘ On my last legs , ’ Seth wrote later , ‘ I hied down to New Orleans to drink myself quietly to death , and nearly did , but something awoke in me and I wrote a book instead . ’ |
| 12 | I wanted to carry you off to bed and make love to you . ’ |
| 13 | They reject them as calumnies which are confuted by conscious experience , and adroitly overlook the faint indications through which the unconscious is apt to betray itself even to consciousness . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
| 15 | But after you reach a certain stage in life — I 'd put it somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five — you suddenly feel you are as secure as you can be and you really ought to give something back to society . |
| 16 | Wanting a context for their work , many feel a conscious need ‘ to give something back to society ’ , to justify a ‘ self-indulgent ’ pastime , avoiding what they see as the stereotype of the male artist as self-obsessed . |
| 17 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 18 | ‘ We intend to keep it in its present immaculate condition and to taxi her up to take-off speeds at regular intervals to keep the engines and flight systems in perfect working order . |
| 19 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 20 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 21 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 22 | and they have to keep them up to date . |
| 23 | He in turn contacted Searle 's agent Rachel Calder at the Tessa Sayle agency ( the lengths we will go to satisfy a reader 's enquiry ) , who confirms that Searle indeed often rewrites his captions , ‘ to keep them up to date ’ . |
| 24 | In return , the ABT runs courses for full- and part-time teachers to keep them up to date with developments in banking education . |
| 25 | Not all class members can attend rallies etc , they , and the Society , depend on you to keep them up to date with the latest stock . |
| 26 | ‘ Ken Harris has promised to keep me up to date with the press briefings … ’ she began . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like to make a record so we 're putting together some tapes this month and we hope to send them off to recording companies and agents to see if we can get a contract . |
| 28 | Thus it involves massive amounts of reporting , in person or on paper , to keep everyone up to date : |
| 29 | You will soon be receiving your free copy of the graduate newspaper to keep you up to date with the University , your contemporaries and the graduate associations . |
| 30 | Version 6 will include anti-virus software , but will Microsoft be able to keep you up to date with the new viruses that appear with frightening regularity ? |