Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered if Rufus had children and if so did he worry about them coming to terrible harm the way Adam worried ? |
| 2 | This situation would be the phenomenalist 's ideal ; all such non-observation statements would be strongly verifiable , and sceptical doubts about them shown to be impossible . |
| 3 | For example , after the History of Sexuality much has been made of Foucault 's analysis of power as a form of totalizing paranoia ; but the analyses in that book , of , for example , the shift from the Catholic confession box to the confessional psychoanalytic couch , are both culturally and historically specific , and Foucault 's remarks about them need to be put in the same perspective . |
| 4 | Do n't get off me trying to be funny . |
| 5 | On the evening of March 26 there will be a celebratory dinner at the Campana Restaurant in Marylebone High Street for everyone involved to really let their hair down . |
| 6 | I was slightly annoyed at Jamie saying anything , even jokingly , about me going to the toilet ; he knows how sensitive I am about it . |
| 7 | No blinking Sam goes to me , cos we were , we were , we turned Arachnophobia off because people needed the toilet and erm there was Songs of Praise or , you know , something like that and they were talking about all this terrorism , somebody said oh I 'm glad you did n't go to London said but I did and she goes oh no you did n't did you ? worried about me going to London |
| 8 | It may be easier for them to talk to a fellow inmate . ’ |
| 9 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 10 | Newspapers and television stations had no standing to apply to the trial judge to lift the order , and there was no avenue open for them to appeal to any other court . |
| 11 | Four out of every five currently leave school with no qualifications , making it all the more difficult for them to adapt to adult life . |
| 12 | You have to reinforce all the time the need for them to listen to one another , to show interest in what each other has to say , to respect one another 's views … |
| 13 | I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way . |
| 14 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 15 | Nor had it taken her long to discover the source of her aunt 's woes , and now the reason for them returned to her mind . |
| 16 | However , he argued , an infinite collection of stars would not fall together , for there would not be any central point for them to fall to . |
| 17 | ‘ Labelling theory ’ claims ( and is supported by research studies such as those just mentioned ) that catching and punishing offenders ‘ labels ’ and stigmatizes them as criminals , and that this process can in various ways make it more difficult for them to conform to a law-abiding life in future . |
| 18 | Girls are supposed to be conformist ; but what appealing models are there for them to conform to ? |
| 19 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 20 | Within a comprehensive school it is perfectly possible for children to be ambitious and competitive , for them to submit to a proper discipline , one imposed both by their teachers , and by the rigours of the subject itself that they are studying . |
| 21 | While long-standing fans either relished it or waited patiently for them to return to straightforward indie pop , more than a few older folk fans switched on the enigma of The Wedding Present . |
| 22 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 23 | That gentile foster parents were liable to imbue youngsters with their own values , however hard they tried to take a neutral line , was undeniable , but the alternative , to turn away children because there were not enough Jewish homes for them to go to , was rejected out of hand by the RCM 's ruling council . |
| 24 | To have done otherwise , it was argued , would have meant turning away young refugees because there were no homes for them to go to . |
| 25 | No one wanted the children to be more traumatised than they already were , she said , and it would certainly be less travelling for them to go to Inverness than to return to Kirkwall . |
| 26 | When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat . |
| 27 | But it 's important that they get abroad and see these because they also imbibe a lot of feeling from just walking around these places and seeing what the ladies are wearing so it 's very important for them to go to those places . |
| 28 | There were plenty of other jobs for them to go to if they wanted to . |
| 29 | no need for them to go to Norwood Gardens or or they they specifically did n't go to Norwood Gardens they just went through did n't they ? |
| 30 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |