Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 2 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Similarly , once state socialism is abandoned , there is no third way around the market that does not lead straight to economic disaster . |
| 4 | Why should the House take seriously any patients charter that does not give back to those patients the right to choose their hospital — a right that they had until the Government took it away ? |
| 5 | Blackburn sent a written apology to the umpire in question and has since apologised personally to him . |
| 6 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 7 | At this point she showed enormous courage by re-assessing her life , and has now struggled through to what she describes as a liberating philosophy of autonomy and self-determination . |
| 8 | He has just finished his GCSE 's and has now moved on to ‘ A ’ levels at sixth form . |
| 9 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 10 | He found that the corpuscles , or electrons as they were later called , must be much smaller than those which Crookes had envisaged ; and Crookes later came round to his view . |
| 11 | As I told you , I did n't particularly take in her plans for the weekend , you know how one does n't , one just asks to be civil and does n't listen properly to the answer . ’ |
| 12 | Coaching also means insisting at housegroup level that if someone makes a commitment to the group and does n't live up to it that they say Sorry to the group about it . |
| 13 | She 's terribly spoiled and does n't take easily to strangers . |
| 14 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 15 | If bright lights cause significant pain , especially if the eye is red mainly around the iris or the pupil is irregular and does not react normally to changes of light . |
| 16 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 17 | If she 's crying for some other reason like because we 've been quarrelling and she wants to make up but does n't know how to I just put my arms round her and cuddle her and let her cry it out . |