Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not a flamboyant man , nor is he much of a social butterfly except by comparison with the rest of his senior colleagues who tend to keep to their own counsel and lives in Barnes . |
| 2 | The Pilgrims of Grace , who planned to march to London to compel Henry VIII to spare the monasteries , went to Jervaulx to ask the abbot to join them . |
| 3 | Mr Kidd said he already had anecdotal evidence of US conventions pulling out of the UK : ‘ One conference of surgeons and one group of insurance sales staff , who planned to come to London for two weeks , could not find a hotel they were happy with . ’ |
| 4 | Consider , for instance , how Rupert Croft-Cooke , out to discredit Gide 's account of Wilde 's seduction of him ( Gide ) into a confirmed homosexuality ( above , Chapter 1 ) , writes of Gide that he ‘ picked up ( among others ) the Algerian boy prostitute Athman , who became known to other visiting Europeans , including Eugène Rouart and Francis Jammes and was brought to Paris by Henri Ghéon ’ . |
| 5 | Stirling and MacDermott were trapped in a cave and rounded up , thus ending the wartime career of the man who became known to the Germans as the ‘ Phantom Major ’ . |
| 6 | When she was not travelling round the world , Miss Hayes lived at Nyack or spent time with her adopted son , James , who became known to television viewers as detective Dan Williams on the series Hawaii Five-O . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language , often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections , who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered . |
| 8 | The visitors would act as spokesmen and advisers for clergy who remain opposed to women priests and assist the archbishops in monitoring the arrangements made for them . |
| 9 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 10 | Later in the month teachers who failed to return to work were dismissed . |
| 11 | Police are concerned about an old man who failed to return to the Robert Huggins Home for the Elderly in Acklam , Middlesbrough , after leaving to go shopping on Monday afternoon . |
| 12 | Words which proved to be unreliable as stimuli for eliciting particular consonants were excluded , as were children who failed to respond to 15 per cent or more of the items . |
| 13 | Thus a 10-month-old baby who failed to respond to its name , or to betray signs of recognition towards its mother , twin sister , or even its rattle , might well give therapists cause for concern ; which is not to say that the normal baby , who does succeed in reacting appropriately , is thereby yet self -conscious . |
| 14 | Those who failed to respond to vaccine ( concentration of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen <10 IU/l ; 14% of those vaccinated ) were first tested for antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen , a marker of past or current infection with hepatitis B. As can be seen from the table , most of those investigated ( 99% ) had negative results for antibodies to core antigen and were true non-responders . |
| 15 | Students who drop out or who fail their college courses are often those who failed to come to terms quickly with their new environment and to make the necessary personal adjustments to fit into that environment . |
| 16 | ( The anthem that is , not Her Majesty , who failed to reply to our invitation to deliver the Ken Mentle Memorial Lecture . ) |
| 17 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 18 | Prospective students who are already in the UK or who intend to come to the UK and wish to visit the University should write to the International Office providing details of their proposed course of study and possible weekday dates when they could visit . |
| 19 | But he knew and she knew that the prince denied access to no one who ventured to appeal to him . |
| 20 | If you are the sort of person who needs to go to the lavatory when you are nervous make sure you know where it is . |
| 21 | From these studies we 've developed criteria to identify who needs to go to a coronary care unit and who does n't . |
| 22 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 23 | But I shall certainly be looking into the circumstances of the provider who has written to me . |
| 24 | Erm we are reassuring everyone who has written to us in the that all of the will be taking it fully into consideration when the money application is is considered . |
| 25 | Mr Harper , who has written to Durham County Council with the couple 's bid , said : ‘ I have known these people for seven years and they are superb to their residents . ’ |
| 26 | Ms Watson succeeds Toireasa McCann who has moved to Cork , Eire , to study traditional Gaelic music . |
| 27 | Simon Greenwood has been appointed chief editor at Quiller Press , succeeding Giles Mandelbrote , who has moved to the Historical Manuscripts Royal Commission |
| 28 | OUP has appointed Frank Slater , currently at Macmillan Press , UK trade sales manager to succeed Mike Ward , who has moved to OUP 's educational division . |
| 29 | He replaces Jean Puri , who has moved to Unilever 's Swedish cosmetic operation . |
| 30 | Is someone who has moved to Louisiana safe from the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke ? |