Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
| 2 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 3 | The Government remain entirely committed to bringing terrorism to an end through the vigorous and impartial actions of the police and the Army . |
| 4 | Prejudice , ignorance , frustration and fear together lead to hatred . |
| 5 | Yet the surviving scores provide little help to a modern impresario trying to figure out whom to hire . |
| 6 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 7 | Once you feel confident that you know what to do and why it should be done , you can put your knowledge to the test , choosing the time and place most suited to your own circumstances . |
| 8 | There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves . |
| 9 | In this one episode we find interconnections with race , class , colonialism , and ( cultural ) imperialism , and in ironic , domestic , tragically intricate ways : witness Gide finally capitulating to the class , racial , and cultural prejudices of his own culture , as voiced through his mother , who in turn speaks through her servant . |
| 10 | Sleep always came to him easily and quickly , very often unexpectedly , burying him when he was n't looking . |
| 11 | The melt usually has to be supercooled by about 5 to 20 K before a significant number of nuclei appear which possess the critical dimensions required for stability and further growth . |
| 12 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 13 | Our newsletter is not the first to be produced using desktop publishing methods , in the UK that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , a bi-monthly journal for authors and writers . |
| 14 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 15 | Cook also referred to Diplock 's ‘ evident distaste for trade unions ’ and said it was well known that ‘ taps ’ were frequently placed on trade unionists involved in trade disputes . |
| 16 | I want now to turn to a less philosophical question about my passage from my armchair to the kitchen . |
| 17 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
| 18 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
| 19 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |
| 20 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 21 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 22 | provide fast repairs to the very highest standards and |
| 23 | If you have difficulty in obtaining the information you want then write to : or to . |
| 24 | How true were the observations of Ecclesiastes : ‘ The wind goeth towards the south and turneth about into the north : it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits . ’ |
| 25 | Ironically , one casualty of failure to bring it into force would be the express attempt to limit action on the part of the Community through the concept of subsidiarity , even if in practical terms account already seems to be being taken of this concept . |
| 26 | Clerke presumably returned to the Newfoundland fishery , as he is not found in the Armada lists . |
| 27 | The 1949 Representation of the People Act effectively brought to final fruition the principle of " one person one vote . " |
| 28 | Awakened in alarm , Hope eventually turned to richly recollected pleasure . |
| 29 | Yes I hope so appeared to be . |
| 30 | Hell , Doc , your packagin' gets better and better , but what you put inside stinks to high heaven , you know . |