Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 2 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 3 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 4 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 5 | Would Mr Lawson then have resisted the temptation to trundle round his Cabinet colleagues , showing off his muscles and boasting that he alone had faced up to the Iron Lady and won ? |
| 6 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 7 | they have this sort of automatic estimating system with key information just goes shooting out to the amazing so , yeah a wee bit about each one would be helpful |
| 8 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 9 | Parties then with noise , just imagine going up to the door where there are fifty or sixty seething people in there . |
| 10 | Now that the party can no longer call on state finances , it will have to streamline its bureaucracy , and has already decided to hand back to the nation all superfluous assets , including the party 's holiday homes , hotels … and its headquarters . |
| 11 | " We 're just going to trot round to the park , so follow me . |
| 12 | ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’ |
| 13 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 14 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |
| 15 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 16 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 17 | She 'll just have to face up to the fact that he 's guilty , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 18 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 19 | NORTHANTS might just struggle to hold on to the NatWest trophy they won on Sunday . |
| 20 | I have to go round to the wife of a man — a man ! my best friend ! — whom I have just left trogging off to the tube station ; I have to go round to his wife of six weeks and tell her I love her . |
| 21 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 22 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 23 | With Mike Taylor in the middle and Bill Brooker as last man , the team finally managed to traverse in to the corner from what is now Titan 's Wall . |
| 24 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 25 | Terry did n't want any truck with service medicos , he just wanted to get back to the States and see Madeleine , Sulome and Gabrielle . |
| 26 | And I just need to come back to the point that my client certainly does n't support either of them . |
| 27 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 28 | The occasional dinner party was a social duty ; they could hardly wait to get back to the seclusion of their own small house . |
| 29 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 30 | Swindon insist there 's been no formal approach by Cheslea and still hope to hold on to the architect of Monday 's triumph . |