Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle twitched and flexed his fingers , trying to communicate to Bodie in the only way possible . |
| 2 | Now Rotherham coroner Stanley Hooper is to write to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 3 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 4 | He said he was quite prepared to come to court with the film , ’ the judge said . |
| 5 | I hope to come to Ireland at the end of the season and I will , of course , come and see you . |
| 6 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 8 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Kim 's parents , Carole and Dennis Brockwell left the family home in Waterstock in Oxfordshire to come to Paris for the trial . |
| 11 | " It 's hard to come to conclusions at the moment . |
| 12 | On reflection , does the Home Secretary consider that if someone is due to come to Britain with the sole purpose of inciting race hatred there is no reason why he should be allowed in , and that Le Pen should have been excluded ? |
| 13 | She felt this even more strongly when the news began to come to England of the concentration camps that were discovered when the troops swept through Germany . |
| 14 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 15 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 16 | If its post cold-war generation is not to be continually confused by unexpected developments then they will need to come to terms with the dynamics of change . |
| 17 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
| 18 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 19 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |
| 20 | Despite an increase of 8.5% in the public subsidy for national museums in 1991–92 , most are still struggling to come to terms with the squeeze imposed on their budgets by the Treasury over the past few years . |
| 21 | In it she recounts trying to come to terms with the fact that two of her four sons had been born with severe abnormalities . |
| 22 | Among the forward-looking theologians who were trying to come to terms with the new scientific data was the Dean of St Paul 's , Canon H.L. Mansel , who gave the Bampton Lectures in 1858 . |
| 23 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |
| 24 | Farmers have to come to terms with the market and look upon wholesalers and retailers as allies , not enemies . |
| 25 | It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs . |
| 26 | An Italian proof-reader and old Party-member , nicknamed the Professore , tries to come to terms with the apparent bankruptcy of his own system of beliefs . |
| 27 | He was still struggling to come to terms with the disappointment of missing the ride on Cool Ground . |
| 28 | Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live . |
| 29 | In many instances , the mother of the child will wish to keep the child , but the father is unable to come to terms with the handicap , and the family is split up . |
| 30 | But despite the positive counselling they may well receive , many parents , especially fathers , find it impossible to come to terms with the nature of their son or daughter . |