Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 2 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 3 | Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment . |
| 4 | They would like all the refugees to go off to Newham and similar boroughs , and for the Home Office to hear no more about the matter . |
| 5 | If the Tories lack the troops to hang on to office alone , the Queen will be awaiting Mr Major 's decision . |
| 6 | Specimens of these butterflies are often found with bite-marks in the region of these false eyes , showing that bird predators really are attracted to this part of the body , allowing the insects to fly off to safety with no more damage than a few frayed edges . |
| 7 | The darkness beneath the cover encourages the worms to tunnel close to the inside of the glass so that you will be able to see them clearly in their burrows . |
| 8 | It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall . |
| 9 | Can we endorse that , and ask the officers to come back to us and keep us in touch with their work . |
| 10 | Tolkien wanted his characters in The Lord of the Rings to live up to the same high standard . |
| 11 | ‘ They thought they were doing well with just the anecdotes to bring home to their wives because they were going to see the Princess Royal on the eve of her wedding , but then they really hit the jackpot with Diana and Charles . |
| 12 | Charles wanted the farmers to talk frankly to him so he could learn about their lives and problems , and put what he learnt to good effect . |
| 13 | ‘ It would need an increase of 100 per cent in the ewe premiums for the farmers to get back to their previous levels of income at the beginning of the 1980s . ’ |
| 14 | Sucralose is one of the few products to come out of the Reading research labs that T&L felt it had the resources to develop through to the market . |
| 15 | A provision for the partners to bring in to the firm 's account their fees and other remuneration derived from offices and appointments held by them ( see below ) ( Clause 10.06 ) . |
| 16 | Make sure there are no other ways for the weevils to climb up to the pots . |
| 17 | The bowl is just the toddlers to clamber on to . |
| 18 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 19 | Her friends pushed the boat off down the river and ran across the fields to get round to the bridge . |
| 20 | Aware of the strength of public feeling , the council , which is trying to promote York to southern companies as a relocation area , put up restrictive height barriers at some of its open car parks forcing the travellers to move on to council land elsewhere . |
| 21 | It is possible for a student who copes comfortably with the modules to go on to Higher in S6 . |
| 22 | Critics are demanding changes to 2 important pieces of legislation … the Children Act of 1989 and the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 , which forced the police to hand over to social services all offenders under the age of 15 once they 've been arrested and charged . |
| 23 | The head , in promoting the discussion and holding the ‘ overview ’ of developments across the school as a whole , will be aware that there are many different possible patterns , ranging from a simple ‘ lesson-a-week ’ pattern to a more complex planned programme which might ( for example ) integrate music into a thematic project or topic , and allow for an ‘ intensification period ’ at the end of term ( say for the children to build up to a performance ) . |
| 24 | You 'll have to pass under the gate-towers to get down to the west . |
| 25 | At Christmas 1910 , the committee gave permission for the women to go out to the pantomime at the kind invitation of a lady of the town , and — possibly put off by some unrecorded experiences in the previous year — they recommended that no eggs be pickled that season . |
| 26 | This equipped the students to teach up to standard 6 , an extra three years of schooling . |
| 27 | ‘ No , more than that — a man who lacked the guts to face up to his responsibilities . |
| 28 | Have n't these candidates got the guts to face up to the voters who elect them to Parliament and spare us a few minutes of their time . |
| 29 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 30 | Leadership can be defined as ‘ a dynamic process in a group whereby one individual influences the others to contribute voluntarily to the achievement of group tasks in a given situation . ’ |