Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah I would , I 've got to write to Dot tomorrow |
| 2 | He told his audience : ‘ It is a particular pleasure to be here , because I have tried very hard during the last eight or nine months to come to Stratford whenever I can . |
| 3 | Finally she decided to come to Greece again . |
| 4 | ‘ Because of Tory party policy I 'm able to come to Hummersknott rather than be forced to go to my local school , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She was also , it appeared , Harriet 's executor in the matter of her will and was making arrangements to come to Bamford immediately . |
| 6 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 7 | A women sat outside her hut cooking some grass seeds for her two teenage children , both of whom were painfully thin and too weak to stand , and told me her story : Her husband had been shot months ago , and when the food ran out in her village her only choice was to come to Kismayo where aid agency food was arriving . |
| 8 | ‘ He is going to come to Donegal more determined than ever , ’ says Fisher . |
| 9 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 10 | Though earlier examples may be found , those of the eighteenth century are more likely to come to hand fairly often , e.g. , The Tatler , begun in 1709 , The Spectator ( 1711 ) and The Guardian ( 1712 ) . |
| 11 | The consequent problems are seen at every stage of subsequent development as the parents struggle to learn signing because their children were not ‘ good enough ’ to progress normally , and as the children have to come to terms not only with deafness but with the community of deaf people which has been shunned by their families . |
| 12 | Rosa has to come to terms not only with what her inheritance means to her but also with accusations that her parents ' brand of Communist radicalism ducks the real issue — the oppression of the black majority by the white minority . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Certainly the worst way to come to terms happily with being alone is to struggle constantly against it , always waiting for someone else to come along and take away our loneliness . |
| 15 | Members of this new authority will have to come to grips quickly with the dilemma that what a city needs , and what its people want , are often two different things . |
| 16 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 17 | ‘ Mat says you 're to come to dinner tonight and stay over . |
| 18 | One was from the editor , regretting that there were no vacancies , the other was from the news editor , asking him to come to Dublin immediately for an interview . |
| 19 | Of course , the deception was bound to come to light sooner or later . |
| 20 | Scotland , at least , have had some time to adjust to conditions here . |
| 21 | Throughout the post-war period , the policy has been to allow the exchange rate to adjust to costs rather than the other way round . |
| 22 | are careful not to jump to conclusions too quickly |
| 23 | Autumn passage appears to be slight and may be under-recorded , since many August and September records appear to relate to passage rather than resident birds . |
| 24 | Many people in the Western or Near Eastern traditions might indeed wonder whether there is n't a link between their neglect of the physical environment ( something becoming increasingly obvious in the ‘ green ’ 1990s ) , and a tendency to relate to God simply as a ‘ person out there ’ , unconnected to anything as ‘ denigrating ’ as matter . |
| 25 | Ministers from time to time make statements seeming to indicate to judges generally what sentencing policy should be , within the range of punishments laid down by statutes for different crimes . |
| 26 | Carpenters who 'd thought their job was done , had to set to work again . |
| 27 | Sudden , over-ambitious expansion is certain to lead to disappointments all round . |
| 28 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 29 | Children like to listen to stories as well as read them , and so selected titles from each level are also available on cassette . |
| 30 | Perhaps the best result of the current fascination with ‘ world music ’ is that , after decades of using it as a fashion accessory or status symbol , people have actually begun to listen to music again . |