Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 2 | Otherwise if we do n't invest money and time in training , we 're forced to have to go outside to sort of buy in people , because we have n't actually invested in them . |
| 3 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 4 | This upward jerk can be very painful and is sometimes enough to dishearten the attacker and allow the hedgehog to scuttle away to safety without having to resort to the passive rolling-up defence . |
| 5 | I used to look forward to commentary on a Sat. afternoon , but it seems such a tie as Ipswich at home can not even produce a goal never mind a win . |
| 6 | Its brief was to ‘ help and persuade as many people as possible to look forward to retirement as the time of fulfilment ’ ( Hubbard 1962 ) . |
| 7 | She said that the secret of a happy prison life was to submit cheerfully to buggery from morning till night , but phooey to that . |
| 8 | According to Fiers , he was ordered by George to testify falsely to Congress in order to protect the Reagan administration . |
| 9 | No-one would maintain , however , that those of us who are unable to contribute economically to society through no fault of our own , should be denied our rights to live in society and derive its benefits . |
| 10 | Recovery in the UK gathered momentum during the second quarter as the UK portfolio continued to respond positively to action on rates and operating costs . |
| 11 | There was a need for vigilance of the type in which Collins specialises , since the Germans had restarted the match apparently intent on finishing it as a contest in time for the largely youthful audience at Ibrox to get home to bed at a respectable hour . |
| 12 | He had to come home in the ambulance , and had a bed downstairs for the daytime , but managed to go upstairs to bed at night . |
| 13 | A good deal of its urban manifestation , as espoused by Mr Sillars , often seems to owe more to hatred of Labour — the barrier to its ambitions — than love of Scotland . |
| 14 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |