Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these people use intramuscular steroids , although only one admits to having shared needles at any time . |
| 2 | It 's more than just what happens to individual patients . |
| 3 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 4 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 5 | As they worked on in this way , the horse 's alarms became briefer , his paces slower , until eventually he dropped to a walk . |
| 6 | If , if right they need to be put . |
| 7 | right , if so what happened to that then ? |
| 8 | So he went through all the glasses until finally they said to me , ‘ Take yours off , ’ and they fitted Rock Hudson perfectly , and he looked in the mirror and said , ‘ I think I look rather good in glasses . ’ |
| 9 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 10 | Alone in the Council , Cranmer refused to sign the document altering the succession , until finally he yielded to the plea of his dying godson . |
| 11 | cos usually you have to , it is my parents , I 've got one in my parents name as well but it 's just |
| 12 | If ever we had to be away for a night , Shanti used to go to spend the night at Mavis 's house , and regarded it as a very great treat . |
| 13 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 14 | if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off . |
| 15 | If ever I get to Heaven ( which my friends tell me is unlikely ) one of my first requests will be to witness The perfect Draft . |
| 16 | If ever it came to court ! |
| 17 | So , if even there seems to be no obvious reason for having presented these recordings in this way , I am not really complaining . |
| 18 | before she could have the tiles put on cos then it had to be skimmed and then the tiles put on . |
| 19 | Cos then you come to your floor and then your sides used to go up villages on a ship . |
| 20 | Now , it 's a bit different , because normally we apply to a job in Glasgow , we might get it or we might not , but , you look at , we 've got more of , of information , but , in less developed countries , that information is , even if it were collected , sometimes it 's not even collected , erm , it 's not widely available , so people 's perceptions or hearsay from people who 've gone before , is the information , and that 's often erm , wrong . |
| 21 | Because just everything seems to be going to pot ! |
| 22 | Erm used to go down to weddings , at the register office on a Saturday morning , and hope that they 'd turn up without witnesses , because then you had to be compensated , , for giving your service . |
| 23 | Yes , a useful point of clarification because actually we bid to the , we 've made a submission to the Department of Transport to install cameras on their behalf on their roads and we want them to pay for them . |
| 24 | Since superficially there seemed to be no obvious grammatical blunders , and the vocabulary was not obviously faulty , the ingredients of this foreignness were not at first apparent . |
| 25 | Our knowledge of the angles of a triangle is of this ‘ demonstrative ’ sort , since here one has to ‘ find out some other angles , to which the three angles of a triangle have an equality ; and finding those equal to two right ones , [ one ] comes to know their equality to two right ones ’ . |
| 26 | It is ironic that the cry of the Left in those days was ‘ Shelters for the people ’ whereas nowadays it seems to be ‘ No shelters for the people ’ . |
| 27 | Most of the smaller bands put out seven-inch singles themselves , whereas here everyone wants to be the next big thing and I hate all that . ’ |
| 28 | While there he submitted to an unsympathetic government in 1652 and 1653 projects for the improvement of the manufacture of iron ordnance and for general economic improvement , similar to his later and , in the former case , more successful , schemes after the Restoration . |
| 29 | But before ever we come to that issue , we have here a murdered man . |
| 30 | ‘ And you put food in , against the King 's orders , before ever you came to Nicosia ? |