Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 2 | I lay the shotgun down to attend to that other chore — and , inevitably , out comes the rabbit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 6 | Lawrence runs away from us now , comes in to bowl to and that one he lets go outside is the right pronunciation , you giggle , you look at the B B C pronunciation . |
| 7 | Cluster of four fielders round 's back now , they 're all crouching as Tufnell comes in to bowl to , is it an appeal from Tufnell as the ball raps him on the pad but he 's playing well forward , but the question Tufnell is asking really to John Hampshire is he playing a shot ? |
| 8 | The problem is this : why is the reflex increase in urine flow so much smaller at night when we lie down to go to sleep ? |
| 9 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 11 | Every day of the week , Maureen Timmins and her daughter Amanda sit down to write to their friends in America . |
| 12 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 13 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 14 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 15 | ‘ Last term we had the dispenser in to talk to them . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 17 | That evening , knowing that David was dining out , Anthony came home in time to have dinner with Comfort and looked in to talk to Julia before changing out of his hospital clothes . |
| 18 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 19 | This meant that Jocasta was unlikely to come bouncing out and invite her in to listen to a Mahler symphony on her record player . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been trying to remember , ever since one of your men telephoned to say somebody would be along to talk to me . |
| 21 | He was the last to leave the sitting-room , calculating that the parents of boarders would talk to the regular teachers before coming along to talk to him . |
| 22 | The student will not feel a sense of guilt if she sits down to talk to an anxious patient . |
| 23 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 24 | Lorimer uttered a disparaging sound , leaning down to talk to her , hanging onto the ivy with one hand . |
| 25 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 26 | Contact Stan by telephone or letter at and maybe with prior warning you may be invited to drop in to chat to him personally . |
| 27 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
| 28 | In some of his experiments the rats were rolling along to get to the food in the goal-box . |
| 29 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 30 | ‘ We had to put duckboards down to get to them , ’ says Miles . |