Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Memoirs from the twenties , for long consigned to oblivion , began to be used again . |
| 2 | The way he gained ‘ the word that sustains the weary ’ was not like a bolt from the blue , but through patiently listening to God morning by morning . |
| 3 | The commission criticized the Federal Aviation Authority ( FAA ) for only reacting to disasters and not doing enough to prevent them . |
| 4 | Governors at Bowesfield Lane Primary , Stockton , are demanding a better service after repeatedly complaining to Cleveland County Council Education Authority about the standard of cleanliness at the school . |
| 5 | At the Blackpool Floorcoverings Exhibition , Stoddard Templeton were presented with an annual award for best service to retailers by the National Association of Retail Furnishers . |
| 6 | Jack Millar ( right ) Sales Administration Director , collects the NARF trophy awarded to Stoddard Templeton for best service to retailers . |
| 7 | ‘ Our son is at school near here so that 's another reason for not moving to Manchester . |
| 8 | Conrad was accordingly taken to task for not reporting to Rome and was ( wrongly ) reproved for taking part in the assembly . |
| 9 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 10 | ‘ Thomas White , a tippler , for keeping shuffle board play ’ came before the Court during the stern days of the Commonwealth , while in 1666 were charged , ‘ John Parson , James his son , Stephen Parker and Sidney Randall for not going to church on the Lord 's day ’ . |
| 11 | And they would be a coward for not going to war . |
| 12 | Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all . |
| 13 | Have you his excuse for not going to Arsenal cos he ca n't handle the tubes . |
| 14 | Anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of military pomposity will relish the story of General Patton inspecting a hospital in France and screaming abuse at a man for not coming to attention in his presence , only to be told ‘ Run along , asshole . |
| 15 | It is used as a reason either for not dissenting or for not admitting to differences in public . |
| 16 | Instead of merely reacting to differences in the road surface , as a conventional suspension system does , it anticipates bumps and bends . |
| 17 | you know , thought back to , if I 'd of only gone to Yorkshire , gone back to Manchester , I 'd of felt my roots , see I was born in Manchester , and |
| 18 | The much-criticised policy of Harry Hyams , who built Oldham into one of the most profitable property companies , of only letting to tenants of ‘ undoubted ’ covenant has been fully vindicated . |
| 19 | Groups are said to work because the group members can now react to each other instead of just reacting to management . |
| 20 | It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school . |
| 21 | The whole company ethos of keeping everything within the plant and of not talking to television or papers survived even when all seemed lost . |
| 22 | He could think of two of his fellow students who might be suitable but they too had degree courses to finish and Adam was beginning to think very seriously of not returning to college . |
| 23 | ‘ I had a curious strain of not attending to things which failed to grip my interest . ’ |
| 24 | Either side of the Refuge , time closed in , with meetings , the children to be looked after , books to be read , until she felt light-headed with the sense of not coming to grips with anything , of being forced to spin like a top . |
| 25 | ( It is bizarre that people who have no intention of ever returning to Britain have more democratic rights than those living rough on its streets . ) |
| 26 | Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold . |
| 27 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 28 | ‘ But because you have no concept of how to relate to people on anything other than a superficial level , you have a terrible shock when you get into a situation like marriage and find that it does n't live up to your fantasies . |
| 29 | I attach a sketch plan and details of how to get to Scorton . |
| 30 | The Home Guard had drawn him a map of how to get to Maryhill , and he was quite happy now . |