Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 2 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 3 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
| 4 | Kim 's parents , Carole and Dennis Brockwell left the family home in Waterstock in Oxfordshire to come to Paris for the trial . |
| 5 | So he invited her sent her a ticket to come to America for a year in nineteen three . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ How funny to come to London for French style , ’ Constance replied sweetly . |
| 8 | AUSTRALIAN lock forward TROY COKER faces a very difficult dilemma : whether to come to London for Harlequins ’ Pilkington Cup final on 2nd May or whether to play for his province Queensland against Auckland in the Super Six competition . |
| 9 | Rance 's proposal to ask an AFPFL delegation to come to London for discussions was accepted , and Attlee informed parliament that they would ‘ hasten forward the time when Burma shall realise her independence ’ . |
| 10 | A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration . |
| 11 | The bus was to come to Burleigh for the swimmers at five-thirty , and then drive to Sturford , the county town , where the championships were to take place . |
| 12 | Ties with extended kin are very much a matter of personal choice ; those with members of one 's nuclear family are more enduring and more likely to lead to responsibility for care . |
| 13 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 14 | Crane , however , argues 45 that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |
| 15 | Crane , however , argues that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |
| 16 | Novell Inc has upgraded NetWare Lite for MS-DOS and Windows 1.1 by improving Windows support : users can now run NetWare Lite and Windows concurrently , and can manage the network from within Windows , rather than having to exit to MS-DOS for their network management . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Hull KR are ready to listen to offers for Wales international David Bishop , who is threatening to retire after the match with France . |
| 18 | The question of justification may also arise where A seeks to assert rights under a contract with B which is inconsistent with another contract between B and C. The question here is whether A has a right equal or superior to that of C and if he has he is justified in persuading B to break his contract with C. So if B enters into a contract on Monday to sell to A for £10,000 and then next day to sell the same property to C for £15,000 A , by persuading B to perform the first contract commits no wrong against C. |
| 19 | Rabbit netting was the main poaching preoccupation of that area and there was always a ready market for live rabbits to sell to miners for training their whippets , of which there were many . |
| 20 | To set against this trend , however , there was much evidence to support the view that the public continued to look to government for assistance . |
| 21 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 22 | The overthrow in November-December 1989 of hardline communist rule across Eastern Europe prompted many foreign observers to look to Albania for signs of a popular uprising against the country 's Stalinist rulers . |
| 23 | If his notion of Greek serenity and harmony induced writers to look to Greece for their standard of perfection , it also coloured the interpretation of Greece current among professional students of the Greek world . |
| 24 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 25 | But Wilson had already changed the map : with his unashamed talk of ‘ right ’ action and his lists of principles , he encouraged the world to look to America for a strong moral line . |
| 26 | That defeat caused France — who had previously looked to Russia as an ally — to look to Britain for mutual support , enhancing the Entente Cordiale which had developed following King Edward 's visit to Paris , with Queen Alexandra , in May 1903 . |
| 27 | Today America must be able to look to Europe for support in containing less predictable threats to the values they have in common from outside Europe . |
| 28 | Dave Morris , the Ramblers ' Scottish officer , said the Government had already accepted that it needed to look to Europe for future ideas for the countryside . |
| 29 | Thirdly , the chapter has suggested that , in seeking to reconcile these conflicting objectives , mothers ( and fathers ) have to look to others for help . |
| 30 | Partnerships will do well not to accede to requests for financial support for the bread and butter resources of schools . |