Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she does n't want to go to school at all . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 3 | Although I welcome the way in which my right hon. Friend has responded to pressure from those of us who are concerned about the future of the volunteers in the Territorial army and elsewhere , and I especially welcome his statement about the future of the Army Cadet Force and the support it receives from the reserves , what are his particular plans for the three reserve battalions of the Royal Anglians ? |
| 4 | Many a ship has come to grief along this shore , including one in the 19th century carrying the dowry of Catherine of Braganza , Queen of Charles II . |
| 5 | A great list of Greenburn and Tilberthwaite ore weighings has come to light from this period , and runs from 13 June 1697 to 22 September 1697 . |
| 6 | Her remarkable eye for talent has led to star-spotting in some very unusual places . |
| 7 | Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks . |
| 8 | Some of the other writers in this book , and a number of other researchers are also seen to contribute to knowledge in this area . |
| 9 | He no he ca n't , he 's got to go to garage at half past nine . |
| 10 | What about this mum 's army of teachers is this going to come to fruition as some point or not ? |
| 11 | As you know I should very much like to return to work in some secretarial capacity at Yorhaul Limited after my baby 's birth and naturally wish to claim maternity pay , so please take this letter as formal notice of these matters as required under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 . |
| 12 | What is bound to come to mind at this point is that there are pairs of things distinct from , but fundamentally like , a causal circumstance and its effect . |
| 13 | In the Ordovician and Silurian periods they became adapted to life in most marine environments , but were particularly numerous in shallow water habitats , in some cases forming whole banks , as mussels do today . |
| 14 | Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all . |
| 15 | Even Desmond Haynes has been known to succumb to ragging of that ilk , but he surely will have advised his county colleague that there is only one foolproof means of revenge . |
| 16 | All this evidence strongly suggests that ( h ) has been a variable in English for many centuries : [ h ] -loss may have gone to completion in some varieties at particular times and places , but in general speech communities have used the variation over these centuries for stylistic and social marking . |
| 17 | You could have bled to death in this place could n't you ? |
| 18 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 19 | No one is allowed to go to sleep during this talk |
| 20 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 21 | This will-to-meaning , Frankl argues , is more important than will-to-power but , of course , an individual can be obsessed by power and gives meaning to life in this way . |
| 22 | its not how they came into the world of real names to stick with prat names like Beatrice and , I mean I know its old royal and that and I mean fancy going to school in that bloody Henry and William , I mean William 's not too bad |
| 23 | And here came a vision of Simon , terribly hurt by Gazzer 's knife and left to bleed to death in some stinking alley . |
| 24 | I do n't think , ’ Nicholas said , ‘ that anyone in Famagusta will have the strength of purpose left to starve to death after that . ’ |
| 25 | He turned his head lazily and smiled before standing up and explaining that as it was Good Friday his mother had gone to church with some old friends and was likely to have dinner with them as well . |
| 26 | If I had admitted to cold in any of these instances , I should also have had to admit that my fund of energy was n't limitless . |
| 27 | Margaret had returned to work by this time , but there had been no real change in her other problems . |
| 28 | In view of the harsh treatment of the victims of mental illness in hospitals like Bedlam , where members of the public or the acting profession could study their behaviour at first hand , it is not surprising that no striking instances of writers proclaiming themselves mad by writing about their own affliction have come to light in this period . |
| 29 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 30 | Nevertheless , one group of toads , the spadefoot toads , have adapted to life in some of the hottest and driest places in the world . |