Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He 's so determined , so forceful — he does what he wants and to hell with the consequences !
2 He was ruthless , arrogant , a man who casually did just as he pleased and to hell with the consequences , and it dawned on her that she was in dangerously close proximity to him .
3 Until the reign of Mehmed II ( 1451–81 ) it is difficult to speak of a learned hierarchy since the practice of reserving the individual offices of state to men of a particular background and training whether to slaves of the Palace School system , to the ulema , or to men of the bureaucratic profession — had not yet become developed to any very great degree .
4 He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant .
5 Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable .
6 Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa .
7 To enter in writing , daily and punctually , reports as to defects in the diet , drainage , ventilation , warmth etc. at the Institution .
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