Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 2 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 3 | Parents seek right to sue over injury to foetus |
| 4 | tenant of area of sea has right to sue for nuisance where pollution killed larvae even though at the time they were killed , tenant had not acquired a proprietary right of action . |
| 5 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 6 | where you turn right to go into the nursery |
| 7 | right to go into go into Goose Hill |
| 8 | She says that it 's good to have somewhere to swim at lunchtimes . |
| 9 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 10 | If pensioners , with potentially the most to lose in the rationing process , do not participate in discussions about rationing who should ? |
| 11 | AS the self-proclaimed party of law and order the Tories appear to have the most to lose in the emotive debate on escalating crime . |
| 12 | The party won the support of people who fear change and apparatchiks who have most to lose from it — hence the thumping 30% the party won in East Berlin . |
| 13 | But this common-carrier principle has produced little such trade because negotiations were soon bogged down in technical committees full of engineers from the very monopolies that stood most to lose from cross-border competition . |
| 14 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 15 | Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic . |
| 16 | While this solution lurked in the consciousness of a large number of US citizens and was eventually to appeal to Hitler and the SS , it was not the kind of thing the Americans admitted or believed about themselves , and was certainly not the kind of solution they wished to offer to their civilised European cousins . |
| 17 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 18 | He speaks , of course , in German , but the booklet carries an English translation by LS , who strives gamely to cope with the often-pretentious language being used here and in the accompanying notes . |
| 19 | I like somewhere to go to in the morning . |
| 20 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 21 | It appeared that one of Edna 's married daughters had split up from her husband and needed somewhere to go with her small children . |
| 22 | From the user 's point of view , day care offers somewhere to go during the day , a new environment , a free or cheap meal , somewhere to meet other people , recreational activities and someone to talk to when things are n't going well . |
| 23 | ‘ It gives Aston somewhere to go in the family , ’ notes Gauntlett . |
| 24 | An account of how Dostoevsky extrapolated his lifelong leading themes of somebody to be and somewhere to go from Cervantes 's huge rhetoric of quest , would be doomed from the start . |
| 25 | But once again the money ran out before sufficient audiences could be attracted to the new policies of temperance and self-improvement , and in 1884 it was the millionaire textile manufacturer and Liberal MP , Samuel Morley [ q.v. ] , who came to the rescue of Emma and her theatre with interim funding , which led eventually to support from the charity commissioners and other private sponsorship with which , in 1891 , Emma Cons was able to buy the freehold of the theatre and dedicate it to musical and other entertainments of an uplifting or educational nature . |
| 26 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
| 27 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 28 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 29 | Heating water etc. to cope with large quantities of laundry made for a periodic need to bring in extra labour over that maintained in the household . |
| 30 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |