Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I like somewhere to go to in the morning . |
| 5 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 6 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 7 | Dr G. Hefter and Dr P. M. May have tried wittily to come to the rescue , but by misinterpreting the ‘ obituary ’ ( Chem . |
| 8 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 9 | The West Belfast MP said the Stormont discussions were not designed to criticise the police , but rather to relate to the Minister the fear felt in the city . |
| 10 | I lay the shotgun down to attend to that other chore — and , inevitably , out comes the rabbit . |
| 11 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |
| 12 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 13 | While agreeing with the spirit of Jameson 's suggestion that an avant-garde sensibility may displace and make strange the regularity of everyday television , it is not enough to appeal to an already formed avant garde — formed in another place or at another time and for another purpose — which can be hauled in and held up to television as a template of value . |
| 14 | Initially , he sounded reasonable enough to appeal to some Unionists , but then he started discussing joint administration as an option . |
| 15 | The captain had survived some hot stuff from Akram , who went for the ribs , only to fall to Aqib , who used the slope well . |
| 16 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 17 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |
| 18 | I mean you do n't put a fiver in to go and then , then have to put more in to go to bleeding erm Wickham and back . |
| 19 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 20 | They duly disposed of India in the semi-final , only to lose to Australia in a game they should have won . |
| 21 | The achievement of the men of '58 — they played superbly to reach the final only to lose to Dublin — is still recalled proudly in Derry . |
| 22 | Exit offended alter-ego with money enough to go to the pictures . |
| 23 | When his own son was old enough to go to school , Alexia took up painting , working her way away from representational landscapes into suggestive abstracts based on the British countryside . |
| 24 | Nobody who was lucky enough to go to the city 's Usher Hall can have forgotten the splendid Dies Irae . |
| 25 | So I mostly chose Uncle Bill because I thought the world of him , but I was cunning enough to go to Uncle Geordie 's about every fourth week . |
| 26 | I lost some weight and felt ill enough to go to the doctor who sent me to hospital in Northallerton . |
| 27 | He could not live sanely , wholly , without her ; it was not enough to go to the playhouse , watch her tempting presence above him on the stage , without the least hope of possessing it . |
| 28 | By the time you were four and old enough to go to school you were practised at enticing the dogs in to be fed , undetected . |
| 29 | But Henry was hellbent on getting Finch up , hellbent enough to go to the analyst on his behalf . |
| 30 | I was told I would n't be fit enough to go to college . |