Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for finality of adjudication by the court whose decision is relied on to found a plea of autrefois convict is even more clearly apparent where a defendant has pleaded guilty . |
| 2 | Such celebrations of our art should not be limited only to honouring great architects and their buildings , or listening to occasional lectures and debates , but should be a continuous function of our institute . |
| 3 | As Irish people are given naturally to speculating over ‘ CIA plots ’ , their excitement when real CIA security men arrived to safeguard the President can be imagined . |
| 4 | I do not believe that , deep down , the Government are committed effectively to fighting monopoly and promoting competition . |
| 5 | Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication . |
| 6 | That internationalism is not confined just to studying , says Indonesian student , who is taking an MA in Politics of International Resources and Development . |
| 7 | Despite experiences which have come close to destroying their lives , the three managed to appear remarkably cheerful as they faced the cameras in Moya 's elegant house . |
| 8 | She had met no one she had even come close to loving . |
| 9 | And today on a satellite link from Everest he admitted his solo climb without Oxygen had come close to costing him his life . |
| 10 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 11 | The memory was made more bitter still by the fact that she had come close to believing it . |
| 12 | In a way , she had come close to hating Nona at times , although she was not going to admit it . |
| 13 | Barry Riley of the Financial Times writes that ‘ in the process of achieving great commercial success , accountants have come close to deprofessionalising themselves ’ . |
| 14 | But Ferreira , who had not come close to breaking the sixth seed , suddenly discovered his best form , hitting three glorious forehands , including one to save match point , and capturing the game when Stich hit a backhand volley out . |
| 15 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 16 | For a moment Agnes thought he must have pulled a muscle , then giggled as she , and she alone , realised he had come close to spilling his holstered pistol . |
| 17 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 18 | Equally predictably , given the third party payment problem , the cost of those publicly funded has come close to running out of control . |
| 19 | The Kenyan-born allrounder had once come close to playing for England . |
| 20 | Maxim touched the outside of his right thigh ; through the thin cotton trousers he could trace the hard-edged crater that had come close to killing him , out in the desert hours from real medical aid . |
| 21 | The council 's own cleaning workers won the schools ' cleaning contracts for Hartlepool , Stockton and Langbaurgh and have not come close to having their future considered . |
| 22 | ‘ They have come close to finding them , then ? ’ |
| 23 | I found the problems in Bolo 's Adventures part 2 just as hard if not harder , although I ca n't really tell because I have n't even come close to finishing part 1 . |
| 24 | Jack Delano believes that enriching the human spirit in some measure is the purpose of all art , and if any of his work has come close to doing that for anyone , then he and his wife , who sadly died in 1982 , would be more than satisfied . |
| 25 | The South Carolina election also saw the entry of former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke who had come close to winning the governorship of Louisiana in 1991 . |
| 26 | The 36-year old current British Open champion hungers after the US Open title , which he has come close to winning on a handful of occasions in the last five years . |
| 27 | But Jade Pike has come close to dying many times in the past year . |
| 28 | After several years of thinking of sexism and heterosexism as different forms of oppression , we 've come back to seeing them as inextricably linked . |
| 29 | ICI is committed increasingly to saving other resources such as raw materials and water . |
| 30 | They have come around to accepting them , but on the dubious grounds that the palaeontological evidence now proves that the earliest hominids arose in Africa about 5–6 million years ago and that Ramapithecus was not a hominid . |