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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I like somewhere to go to in the morning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It appeared that one of Edna 's married daughters had split up from her husband and needed somewhere to go with her small children . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It gives Aston somewhere to go in the family , ’ notes Gauntlett . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence . |
| 28 | Triumphantly she extracted a navy-blue cotton dress with a big white sailor collar , presumably to distract from the bulge . |
| 29 | They believed that it was necessary to combine the best in local community action and larger social concerns ; to bring the fragments of social and community action together , e.g. community groups , trade unions , women 's groups , etc. to work towards a vision of a new society based on a radical analysis of existing structures and the lessons and aspirations of the men and women attempting to create new structures at local level ; to stress objectives and content in education as well as methods and process . |
| 30 | The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils . |