Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 2 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 3 | Warranties ‘ are other obligations which , though they must be performed , are not so vital that a failure to perform them goes to the substance of the contract . ’ |
| 4 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 5 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 6 | What kind of answer do I want to the question of how I use a map in my head ? |
| 7 | So I clung to the concept of ideal love for you , at the same time hoping for the even more impossibly ideal physical fulfilment and completion that would seal our closeness for ever . |
| 8 | Unresolved , I clung to the nub of " I " , perhaps sensing that I needed " I " if was ever to hurtle to freedom . |
| 9 | That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight . |
| 10 | I repeat a suggestion that I made to the Secretary of State at the time of the last atrocity in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them . |
| 12 | When I got to the part of your letter about masturbation , I went to my room and masturbated . |
| 13 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 14 | As I got to the bottom of the stairs I said to myself , ‘ Splendid work with Sister Patronise , Miss Marquis . |
| 15 | J. Waller , Pears Terrace , Shildon : I was going to visit my granny and as I got to the bottom of the street there was a church or a chapel nearby which was flying a flag at half mast . |
| 16 | Oh , yes , after I got to the perimeter of Aurae Phiala , where you can see clean across the bowl to the road the other side , I did see cars pass there a couple of times . |
| 17 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 18 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
| 19 | As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation . |
| 20 | I got to the end of the passage , called — harmlessly enough — Edwards 's Shortcut . |
| 21 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |
| 22 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 23 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 24 | I moved to the door of the bar , stepping lightly , warily . |
| 25 | I moved to the back of my trench as Taff stood up to man the gun . |
| 26 | I plummet to the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 27 | okay , sentence , sentence , I want to the end of the sentence . |
| 28 | Last week , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) accused me of being unduly alarmist when I referred to the figure of 7 million Russians wanting to leave the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | I referred to the example of St. James 's college in Leeds , which is a trust-funded college . |
| 30 | In today 's introduction I referred to the importance of maintaining our metabolic rate . |