Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still needs the freedom of a four-year-old , to explore , to laugh suddenly in surprise at the world , to be open , to wander with the secure knowledge of a base to return home to . |
| 2 | SHEARSON Lehman , the securities house , has sparked fears of a fresh wave of job cuts on Wall Street with a decision to make up to 800 employees redundant . |
| 3 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 4 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 5 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 6 | And last , but not least , everyone in Congress has a responsibility to go back to their workplaces and communities and begin the campaign , not next year , or the year after , but next week . |
| 7 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 8 | Not that she had much of a future to look forward to . |
| 9 | Further ( 2 ) it is reasonable for a fire-engine to proceed quickly to a fire , for life and property may be in danger . |
| 10 | No longer did a sixth former of limited means need to win a scholarship to go on to higher education : admission secured a grant from the Local Authority . |
| 11 | ‘ The trouble is they 'll send for him when he is eighteen , and we were hoping he 'd win a scholarship to go on to University . |
| 12 | What could be more natural than for three members of Prince 's plus a girlfriend to wander over to St. George 's to see the closing stages of the Million Sterling Tournament ? |
| 13 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 14 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 15 | He had given Gina a column to take in to his paper while he was away . |
| 16 | It then accepted a new structure in which a minimum standard of English and arithmetic qualified a child to go on to an intelligence test to measure its ‘ capacity ’ . |
| 17 | And of course we keep their rooms for them as long as there 's any chance at all — it 's tremendously important that they should feel they 've a home to go back to . ’ |
| 18 | But he may not have a home to go back to . |
| 19 | The Dominican Republic was widely held to have undermined its own efforts to become a full member of CARICOM following the announcement in January 1990 of a plan to export up to 763 tonnes of bananas per week to Europe from April 1990 . |
| 20 | They 're holding an emergency meeting tonight to discuss a plan to build up to 2,000 homes there . |
| 21 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 22 | Smelling the water , Daisy needed no further encouragement and put on a spurt to hurry down to the river . |
| 23 | HOWARD KENDALL last night admitted he faces a battle to hold on to Everton 's £2m-rated defender Martin Keown . |
| 24 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 25 | Such an approach can encourage low expectations and a failure to attend properly to the needs of children other than those with ‘ problems ’ . |
| 26 | It was a focus in the day ; a point to look forward to , to work towards . |
| 27 | Home is the centre of my life , a place to go out to the world from , a place to return to . |
| 28 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 29 | He argued there was a need to go back to basic skills and more disciplined teaching , and announced that , within two years , schools inspection teams are to include non-educationists on each visit . |
| 30 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |