Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as a sound background in Economics and Statistics , the candidate must demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively to potential and existing clients . |
| 2 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 3 | These changes were to lead eventually to competition and dissent between the two main providers , particularly in the Eastern District as it was a predominantly rural area . |
| 4 | To dwell upon the problem emotions of others is frowned upon as ‘ morbid curiosity ’ , likely to lead only to highlighting and prolonging them , thereby causing unnecessary pain . |
| 5 | As the war progressed Hitler tended to listen only to advice that agreed with his own views and no one was willing to disagree with him . |
| 6 | I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance . |
| 7 | I thought I told you to go straight to bed when I sent you home last night . " |
| 8 | Could we please NOT exchange presents this Christmas — has such dreadful expenses because of and I should prefer to give more to charity than I anyway do . |
| 9 | The acquisition of Ultramar in late 1991 fulfilled a strategic aim to strengthen LASMO1s extensive interests in the North Sea and Indonesia , creating two core businesses to contribute strongly to production and cashflow . |
| 10 | The pilots and crew had , in some instances , been able to trek overland to safety but the aircraft , valued at many millions , would remain there imprisoned forever . |
| 11 | Separate national autonomies had appeal for those with some stake in society , the lower-middle classes , craft and some skilled workers ; the right wing gravitated towards peaceful reform and nationalism , while the left endeavoured to hold hard to revolution and a working-class unity that would cut horizontally across the empire . |
| 12 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 13 | The loss of his Prime Minister 's salary was a serious matter , and he refused to take either to journalism or the City , as he had criticized Lloyd George for one and Sir Robert Horne for the other . |
| 14 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
| 15 | It is certainly true that UK banks have , in the past , tended to lend less to industry than their foreign counterparts . |
| 16 | The lizard is then able to rush away to safety while the predator , momentarily confused by the suddenness of what has happened , concentrates all its efforts on the disembodied tail . |