Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Gower , who will be in India this winter commentating for BSkyB , last night changed his position on the protest , saying : ‘ I had hoped they might drop this before it got to the full meeting . |
| 2 | She considered all this as she listened to the heated opinions forced upon her outside the shop ( where the throbbing engine of the Findus delivery van obliged everyone to shout ) , on the corner by the church and at two other points on her route back to Greystones . |
| 3 | The guide-lines for the course , as regards its fitting into the Chinese way of thinking , have been very gently imposed , and we are wondering whether we shall be as fortunate as this when we move to the other cities . |
| 4 | There were n't many houses , but there was a few when you got to the bottom , see . |
| 5 | It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 6 | She thought they must like singing very much since they went to the chapel so often . |
| 7 | The changes proposed by these authors in so much as they relate to the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands are summarised below . |
| 8 | The Conference proceedings have been consistently published over the years and the 1989 Autumn Conference reflects the expansion and interest in action research in as much as it extends to the three separate publications listed above . |
| 9 | Well it was a good idea in as much as it returned to the people 's wishes did n't it ? |
| 10 | As a form of enterprise entirely consistent with that thinking and with the given social order , Co-operation could command the support of John Stuart Mill just as much as it responded to the exhortation of Samuel Smiles . |
| 11 | If Chris Patten lies to the people of Hong Kong as much as he lied to the people of Britain , then God help them when the Chinese take over . |
| 12 | In nineteen eighty two , a loaf was thirty seven P and in ninety sorry eighty two , thirty seven P , ninety two , it 's fifty four P and er I 'm reliably informed by er my wife that you can actually get loaves less than that if you go to the er large supermarkets where they 're discounting the bread to get you in the store obviously . |
| 13 | That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever , everywhere ; but a beautiful silver sadness , like a Christ face . |
| 14 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 15 | Got a second tomorrow , so that 's seven the whole bit the whole week is all about that until we get to the presentation presentations , what does he mean by presentations ? |
| 16 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 17 | The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated . |
| 18 | Walking means exercise , walking means effort , you and I have to do something to keep ourselves spiritually awake , going back to our illustration again about the car driver on the motorway , you find yourself after so many miles just dozing off because the road is so straight , not much traffic around , not much to think about apart from the countryside that goes by and you 're there foot on the accelerator , no braking , no gear changing , nothing at all and you get to the point where you 're driving one-handed by the thing , that 's the time when you get so relaxed is n't it ? |
| 19 | It 's in her name , she 's , her father 's helping her paid the deposit or something and she clears the mortgage she has no right , he has no right to it all if she went to the police . |
| 20 | Procedurally Nonnie we ca n't do that till we come to the sub committee . |
| 21 | We have got a growing , ageing population , and that does put further demands on your services , and those are shown there in summary form for the client groups , and there are more details on those when we get to the additions and reductions lists on pages thirteen and fourteen , later . |
| 22 | And when the girls come back they can do that while you go to the dentist . |
| 23 | At the count , Mr Taylor held his own until it came to the boxes from Whaddon and Hester 's Way — then disaster . |
| 24 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 25 | All day long I felt calm and joy , and it was the same when I went to the town and talked to the serving people and friends that I met , for I looked at people from the universal viewpoint of the Eternal . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she answered , hiding beneath a pleasant smile of her own as she went to the desk , that her heartbeats had suddenly picked up speed . |
| 27 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 28 | Where did people park their cars and all that when they go to the matches ? |
| 29 | There will be plenty of time for you to have to cope with that when they return to the city and visit Liz and Owen in hospital . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll have a look at that when I get to the house . ’ |