Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this freak show , we are led inexorably to what everyone has waited for ; the re-assemblage of The Birthday Party for a mini-greatest hits package of ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ , and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 2 | And so when Luke had brought home a copy of the People 's Charter and read it aloud to her she had listened ; considered ; believed . |
| 3 | It 's looking good but it 's down to us They 've convinced dealers that they have something worth selling … even in a recession . |
| 4 | Chairman Mark Sweeney said : ‘ I would like to apologise personally to anyone who has suffered as a result of the actions of any of our sales people . ’ |
| 5 | I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them . |
| 6 | Whereas Marx often used this term to refer generally to what I have called the division by sectors or branches many recent writers have used it to refer to the division of functions , found within all branches in a capitalist economy , between the ‘ exploiters ’ or ‘ controllers ’ of labour power and the direct production workers . |
| 7 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 8 | Buyers need to tell someone close to them they have made the arrangements , otherwise the policy will be worthless . |
| 9 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |
| 10 | Under the basic criteria for the restoration of Latvian citizenship and naturalization , approved by the Supreme Council by 93 votes to 30 with seven abstentions , citizenship would be granted automatically to anyone who had held Latvian citizenship before 1940 ( the start of Soviet occupation ) , and to their descendants , even if they were not currently resident in Latvia . |
| 11 | Otherwise it will take another Danish No to wake them up to what they have brought upon themselves . |
| 12 | These activities not only improve our working conditions and practices , but also enhance the quality of service to our customers and add up to what we have termed the Group 's ‘ Quality Culture ’ . |
| 13 | However , my hon. Friend can be assured that I have listened attentively to what he has said and his points will be considered carefully before a decision is made on whether the application should be called in . |
| 14 | One miracle to praise God for is that everything that has been sent out to me I have received ( at least as far as I know ) . |
| 15 | If you read this end to end Ron I 'd be very grateful but let me just point out to you we 've agreed twenty eighth , if you bring it forward great . |
| 16 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 17 | I thought back to something he 'd said earlier . |
| 18 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 19 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 20 | If you 're strongly allergic to any foods , you 'll know what they are , but if you get the occasional bout of nettle rash for no obvious reason or red , itchy patches which fade within a few hours , suspect a food allergy and think back to what you 've eaten during that day . |
| 21 | But I come back to what I 've said at the outset Mr Mayor in conclusion . |
| 22 | They are my only remaining close family and though I wo n't hang on to them I have worried about feeling lonely . |
| 23 | Can you camp on to somebody who 's camped on to somebody else ? |
| 24 | Fighting down an abrupt rush of fear as she zigzagged across the stone floor to avoid the rifle fire , Benny pulled out one of the small plastic sample bags she always carried , and dropped the paper on to which she had copied the drum 's label into it . |
| 25 | And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind . |
| 26 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 27 | And that 's the logic of the issue , but it wo n't work that one , but at least we 'll hang on to what we 've got , I hope . |
| 28 | The reason I joined the G M B and I 'm sure most of you was , in good times the G M B looks for improvements in pay and conditions , in bad times we look for holding on to what we have got . |
| 29 | Your success could be resented by others , which may mean that you have to fight for dear life to hang on to what you 've got , or there will be little time to enjoy your personal or social life . |
| 30 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |