Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hon W.L. MacKenzie King , Prime Minister of Canada , admitted shyly to Edna Jacques that he had been an ardent fan for over 20 years , and Mrs Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist , said to her ‘ You have the gift , Edna dear , to ring bells in the hearts of the people ’ . |
| 2 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 3 | I know but the one that goes right to Church Hill , that one . |
| 4 | After following Wilton Lane to the north for around ¾ mile the route goes right to Dunsdale Farm and on to meet the B1269 . |
| 5 | After a brief stop-over at Patriot Hills they will be flown on to Punta Arenas in Chile where the expedition radio base was located . |
| 6 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 7 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 8 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 9 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 10 | Erm so Elizabeth got on to Aristocrats so what , what happened ? |
| 11 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |
| 12 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 13 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 14 | Then I got on to James again . " |
| 15 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 16 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 17 | ‘ We are just building this up at the moment , ’ Gerwyn explains , ‘ so we sell locally to shops . |
| 18 | The ROK armed forces were to be developed so as to be capable of handling internal dissent but the issue as to its capacity for reacting effectively to North Korea was side-stepped . |
| 19 | ‘ One major limitation of the contemporary contingency approach lies in the lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate that matching organisational designs to prevailing contingencies contributes importantly to performance . ' |
| 20 | It pays to examine all gutter brackets and clips to ensure no water will drip on to walls . |
| 21 | The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting . |
| 22 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 23 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 24 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 25 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 26 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 27 | The object of the executors ' year is to protect the personal representatives from demands for immediate payment but it is not to be relied on to cover undue delay in dealing with the estate . |
| 28 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 29 | … whether a valuation … is binding … must depend on the terms of the contract ( including any implied terms ) , on the nature of any circumstances relied on to vitiate the valuation , and the nature of the proceedings on which the issue arises . |
| 30 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |