Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , rather than getting upset about this it spurs her on to try harder to show that they are worth watching . |
| 2 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 3 | As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden . |
| 4 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 5 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 6 | The only alternative would be to require the new unitary councils to club together to carry out this and other strategic functions , but that begs the question : Why abolish the counties in the first place , only to recreate them in a less accountable form ? |
| 7 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 8 | I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum . |
| 9 | LIVERPOOL 'S John Barnes makes a dramatic return to action today to give the Mersey giants a timely boost . |
| 10 | A point which sprang to mind here to complicate the issue surrounds cheese which is made in several places , including the one after which it takes its name . |
| 11 | Though their long history from the early Cambrian to the present different groups of articulate brachiopods rose to prominence only to decline . |
| 12 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 13 | Finally the lawyers for the families went to court again to try to obtain sight of at least some of the evidence against their clients . |
| 14 | RETIRED teacher George Calvert went to court yesterday to try to stop a noise he says is disturbing God 's peace — the local church bells . |
| 15 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 16 | So er they 've put me out to grass so to speak . |
| 17 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
| 18 | Does n't matter , you have to get to bed early to get a good sleep . |
| 19 | A TOWN in Peru is in an uproar over a legend that a Blackburn woman buried there is a vampire who has vowed to return to life tomorrow to seek revenge . |
| 20 | Please note that these rooms are offered subject to availability — as supply is limited , we advise you to book early to avoid disappointment . |
| 21 | I been to hospital once to visit someone . |
| 22 | I went back to school slowly to begin with . |
| 23 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 24 | In that scenario , children will then go to school only to gain social skills and join in curricular and other group activities . |
| 25 | ‘ I went to Dovecote yesterday to see Maisie , ’ she said . |
| 26 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 27 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |
| 28 | Husband and wife kept up their own conversation , turning to the elderly lady from time to time only to offer her another cup of tea or a cake . |
| 29 | Words such as Menuetto and Allegretto can mean a variety of things ; it is often up to context alone to let us know what a specific set of words is telling us . |