Example sentences of "to [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of the effect on potential parties , an argument advanced by the petitioners was that the notion of ‘ involuntary agency ’ was an established part of the lex fori , and to disapply it in the case of foreign defendants would be to give such defendants an advantage denied to their domestic counterparts . |
| 2 | We have to right it again . |
| 3 | The man leaned quickly forward , on hands and knees , to right it . |
| 4 | But that 's , I mean that 's what you 've got to start from , from doing the counting and then getting to right it out , how much have got there ? |
| 5 | Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established . |
| 6 | While both gentlemen shared the comfort of a horse and buggy to the course , however , the boys had to hot-foot it at a brisk jog behind the carriage — ‘ an exercise to be relished almost as much as the tuppence we got for caddying , ’ Fred used to say . |
| 7 | well to somewhere they 've been |
| 8 | very simple reason she ca n't get she ca n't argue , this is a charity concert , she charges , the Chad do n't , and therefore , from the point of view of the charity , er it makes obvious good sense that we should go to somewhere which is free . |
| 9 | I have said that Poe 's tales take the reader to somewhere he/she is not him or herself ; these Gothic stories restore the reader to him or herself . |
| 10 | And going back to somewhere you have not been since you were a baby could be very exciting . |
| 11 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 12 | The lines led off to somewhere I 'd begun |
| 13 | From 6pm to 7pm he usually has a meeting with the group chief executive , and then informal meetings with executives who are still around . |
| 14 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 15 | Er we got the hours down to eventually we got the hours down to forty four . |
| 16 | It is claimed that the fabliaux can reduce human characters to merely their genitals — perhaps best represented by the excitement of the three women who find an isolated vit — linking brutal violence with crude language and excluding emotion or affection . |
| 17 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 18 | But then again I said perhaps they 'll have to perhaps they 'll be thrown on one side some of them . |
| 19 | I ought to perhaps we ought to start closing them in again then that 'll keep |
| 20 | His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn . |
| 21 | of the client to lead you on to perhaps you could introduce more elements into your actual |
| 22 | This brings me to perhaps my most serious criticism of the Foreign Office , relating to the Rhodesian negotiations themselves . |
| 23 | You needed sunglasses to go in it , erm oh you did n't really actually it looked , it looked alright but it was very modern , my mum and dad did n't think it was up to much you know we thought it was great . |
| 24 | They were helped on their way with a fair tide , and a beam reach by a south-westerly of only marginally less velocity than on Saturday , although a lumpy sea gave some problems , and with only two or three short turns to windward it was again a benefit race for the top end of the fleet . |
| 25 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 26 | And for the stories coming up next , as they say , I understand that Good Morning Britain is hoping to better its big cat tale by reporting on wild parakeets in Maidstone , and cats that eat indoor plants throughout the country . |
| 27 | We have made mention in passing of mobility within the context of a family 's history : both the ups and down of social mobility according to circumstance , and the more obviously-apparent geographical moves people made to ensure their own survival or to better their lot . |
| 28 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |
| 29 | Needless to say , Liverpool are aiming to better their first round performance in appalling weather when their side was reduced to 10 men and went down 4-2 . |
| 30 | ‘ I have only done what lay within my power to better her lot . |