Example sentences of "things to " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to make it , he wrote , and then to show it , and then to bring things to a finish . |
| 2 | Mexicans in the moonlight , surging towards her over the stubble , old wrinkled women , kids with the bulbous stomachs , things to be honest she did n't see because they drove past too quickly on the motorway . |
| 3 | Plans evolved for new trains for the 1990s Channel Tunnel workings between British provincial centres and Paris , Brussels , and beyond being formed into eighteen coach trains with a power car at each end like an extended electric version of the InterCity 125 diesels , but with the capability to split into nine-coach trains push-pull style with a single power car , perhaps they are all things to all men . |
| 4 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
| 5 | Thus the modern saloon and hatchback has to be all things to all people . |
| 6 | Men passed on these things to their sons and their apprentices . |
| 7 | ‘ After all , words like ‘ wispy ’ and ‘ short ’ mean different things to different people , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ( Perhaps their paintings said things to one another during these years that they could never say in person . ) |
| 9 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 10 | There are two other things to be tackled before the Japanese can operate at full tilt . |
| 11 | But there are worse things to be avoided than that |
| 12 | Last October George Bush was asked to sign a bill that tried to restore things to the more liberal way they were between 1971 and 1989 . |
| 13 | There is a way to make neutrinos decay without producing light — you can achieve almost anything in this sort of physics , as long as you are willing to do nasty things to pretty theories — but it involves conjuring up yet another new particle . |
| 14 | They need to be ‘ better known to nature ’ too , prior in the order of things to the conclusions established on their basis . |
| 15 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 16 | The biblical tradition , while taking sin and the Fall seriously , does not consider the universe and the world as things to be exploited , but rather to be treated with respect . |
| 17 | You see , Christmas is linked with the season of Advent — the season of hope which sets before us the hope of his coming to restore all things and bring all things to a glorious conclusion . |
| 18 | There was never any need to explain things to him ( even if she had wanted to ) . |
| 19 | And in a way one did n't want things to be over , for the uncertain future was more unsettling than the unexplained past . |
| 20 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 21 | The rule became so many things to me — |
| 22 | There were always things to be done , and Grandma joined in with the rest of us in her quiet , dreamy , unobtrusive way . |
| 23 | ‘ This show really does carry things to a new low . |
| 24 | They did n't even know I could sing , but they said they could do things to my voice . |
| 25 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
| 26 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 27 | An unconventional Canadian professor of economics at Harvard , John Kenneth Galbraith , crystallized all these phenomena in a book whose title , The Affluent Society , meant many things to many people . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , who do you tell things to ? ’ |
| 29 | Smallfry 's beautiful bed had become saturated with sticky red blood , but she had pulled Frankie into her arms and laughed and laughed with happiness because now the hated Tom Fish could never do dirty things to her again . |
| 30 | ‘ I have already packed the few things to which she is entitled , in a small box . |