Example sentences of "to [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Jim was a moody sort of individual , was n't he , he had n't liked being asked ; in Philip 's opinion there was more to Jim than met the eye . |
2 | No wonder , then , if realism , which makes a claim to know past and present in unequivocal terms , returned to fiction and repossessed the field . |
3 | From the end of the lane , a circular walk may be made as suggested on the map , starting along the path to Selside but turning off after a mile to aim due north for the far end of the Allotment wall . |
4 | At least we wo n't dally — no humming and hawing — no referring the matter to superiors and wasting valuable time . |
5 | Hodge had pursued policies from his arrival in Korea designed to strengthen the opposition to communism and to move away from rather than towards cooperation with the Soviet Union . |
6 | They felt it was the duty of America to stop the world toppling to Communism and did everything they could to stop Ho Chi Minh . |
7 | Eichelberger was vehemently hostile to communism and favoured some degree of Japanese rearmament ; MacArthur was opposed to such action . |
8 | It can vary from single units to repeats and form borders to all-over effects . |
9 | I bet this , well first of all this is going , going to Colin and saying where 's my dinner ? |
10 | They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep . |
11 | He took the North London line to Acton and walked from there to Hammersmith . |
12 | Neither the novel nor the house , however , treat Gothic as more than a superficial application to values that remain essentially Palladian . |
13 | Push halved new potatoes , cut sides down , on to sticks and set on the hot surface . |
14 | For safety , I dismantled the link to Kirov and gave the final go-ahead . |
15 | And so to next month 's final article when I shall report on the outcome of the trip to Gresford and give a full report on the practical side of the GPS navigating system . |
16 | The problem is , they do n't want to resort to hair that looks dyed . |
17 | Look for rollers that are kind to hair and use them with a gentle setting lotion |
18 | They crawl from hair to hair and look rather like brown greenfly . |
19 | Shah Jehan had now recovered from his illness and was able to move to Agra and join in the victory celebrations . |
20 | Dara fled back to Agra and set off on the road to Delhi without daring to face his father . |
21 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
22 | DataEase 's menus are n't overlaid GUI-style and do n't drop down , but this makes for a simple approach to building and using your database . |
23 | This is why I know them , it 's loads of people to get to decision but do er this representation is n't it ? |
24 | He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607 . |
25 | I went away to university and made some new friends , and John and I finished . |
26 | Well , it was the last straw , apparently , to be told by this cultivated , clean , excessively reasonable , and controlled favourite son , in these hideous surroundings , that Vincent really should n't have come here ; that it was more foolishness , another dead-end , when he could have gone to university and made everyone happy , including himself . |
27 | Thomas was a younger son and it seems he had no interest in the business ; he went to university and became a teacher . |
28 | I was waiting to go up to university and had just got a job as a prep-school master . |
29 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
30 | During the lull Paige had gone to university and acquired her degree . |