Example sentences of "[verb] to court [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 2 | He said he was quite prepared to come to court with the film , ’ the judge said . |
| 3 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |
| 4 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 5 | Thirdly , the defendant complains , the judge failed to deal with the problem which the jury indicated they had on returning to court after an hour 's deliberation . |
| 6 | The second man , 20 , has been charged with possession of cannabis and Ecstasy and has been bailed to Court on July 7 . |
| 7 | LAST week , a case came to court in which a mentally unstable man was convicted of stabbing three policewomen and one policeman in a shopping centre . |
| 8 | Now Steve 's lawyer Martin Plowman is going to court in a bid to get the council decision overturned . |
| 9 | A convicted murderer is going to court in an attempt to recover hundreds of pounds which he claims police took from him . |
| 10 | Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there ! |
| 11 | It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped . |
| 12 | Kevin Sarbutts , of Elmridge , Skelmersdale , Lancashire , is accused of lying to Court of Appeal judges when he claimed he was coerced by police into giving vital evidence against a man accused of killing a stallholder in 1987 . |
| 13 | Mr Ward returned to court in the morning to hear the judge award him his costs . |
| 14 | A woman with cancer has been summoned to court for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of just over fourteen pounds . |
| 15 | He admitted the offences but did not return to court for sentencing . |
| 16 | ‘ A temporary farewell only — I doubt not I shall return to court in the summer , whether it be at Westminster , Eltham or Richmond . |
| 17 | Daniel Gardiner , from Stroud in Gloucestershire , who was driven to court in a prison bus , and Simon James , from Minchinhampton near Stroud , pleaded not guilty to his murder when the trial began at Winchester on Tuesday . |
| 18 | Terrorist cases brought to court during this period included ( i ) the March 1991 imprisonment in France of the Eksund crew for arms smuggling [ see p. 38112 ] and the July 1991 imprisonment of the ship 's master [ see p. 38356 ] ; ( ii ) the sentencing in the Netherlands in April 1991 of one out of four people arrested in connection with the 1990 Roermond killings [ see p. 38157 ] ; the sentence was , however , overturned in July [ see p. 38356 ] , while another of the four was extradited to Germany in September [ see p. 38445 ] ; and ( iii ) the imprisonment in May 1991 of eight Sinn Féin members [ see p. 38209 ] . |
| 19 | Beko Ransome Kuti , the president of the Nigerian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights ( CDHR ) and chair of the Campaign for Democracy ( CD ) , was along with four others brought to court on June 15 in Gwagwalada , a small town 100 km from Abuja and about 400 km north of Lagos . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , three girls aged 15 and 16 years were brought to court for robbing a woman of 9s 2½d after they had hustled her . |
| 21 | They measured the number of cases brought to court by persons who alleged that their cattle had been stolen . |
| 22 | Forty cases of illegal logging have been brought to court in the last three years , but the loophole in the regulations makes it difficult to prove charges , so a technique is being developed to date the year of felling , using tree rings . |
| 23 | Bowen staged an escape while being brought to court in December last year , Mark Williams is in hospital after becoming ill during the trial and Bush is still being sought after breaking out of the court last week with four of the other accused . |
| 24 | And every day Berkowitz , 45 , was brought to court from Wandsworth prison , where he is serving three years for such an offence . |
| 25 | Corporate lawyers managed to delay the case coming to court for two years and then they prolonged the proceedings for a further two years . |
| 26 | There is a school of thought that claims Wild Will was close to coming to court in 1588 , four years before Popham became a judge in 1592 . |
| 27 | He was fined £100 and given a conditional discharge after he admitted theft , possession of a knife and not surrendering to court on an outstanding warrant . |
| 28 | Males continue to court in the way they do because if a male were to stop producing part of the species ' typical display , females would not mate with him . |
| 29 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 30 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |