Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , clergy wives , listening eagerly to their husbands ' superiors , would find their feet gripped by apparently supernatural growths from the infernal regions . |
| 2 | Gabriel nodded eagerly to himself . |
| 3 | At nights he imagined she was beside him in bed , naked and wanton , submitting eagerly to his advances . |
| 4 | His enthusiasm communicated itself to the voters who responded eagerly to his promise of a " New Deal " , and he polled 22 million votes to Hoover 's 15 million , carrying 42 out of 48 states . |
| 5 | When it was pressed again , doggedly but almost blindly , he struck the questing sword expertly out of the hand that held it , with only the measured force required , and reached a hand eagerly to his adversary as he crumpled to his knees . |
| 6 | Intel Corp is said to be talking eagerly to anyone with cooling technology that could prevent its Pentiums turning personal computers into desktop microwave ovens . |
| 7 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 8 | And when you talk sensibly to them and that you know , about ja , that and too old for you like that , something like that I , I get really erm you know , really erm when they erm they , they start to laugh but you 're not quite funny and that . |
| 9 | I am Tug , he said fiercely to himself , struggling to drag his memories closer around him . |
| 10 | " If my father decides to beat me for what I did , " he whispered fiercely to himself , " please help me to endure the pain and not to cry . |
| 11 | Like a novice swimmer suddenly caught in a flood-tide , she was swept along , clinging fiercely to his shoulders as he found her lips , invaded her mouth , his tongue entwining with hers . |
| 12 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 13 | What Havel wittily shows is the kind of Catch-22 situation faced by a dissident in a despotism : whether to cling fiercely to your own moral integrity ( thereby landing others in the shit ) or whether to conform and perpetuate a corrupt system . |
| 14 | He failed the test and the reward has gone to someone else and it is not , Anna said fiercely to herself , pressing her palms to her closed eyes , it is not fair that he should never know what he can not do , that he should always set himself targets he ca n't achieve , that he should never be allowed to progress . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the physical exertion , ’ she muttered fiercely to herself . |
| 16 | ‘ I should have known , ’ she whispered fiercely to herself . |
| 17 | It was always the same wherever he went — people were drawn inexorably to him , as though some of his charisma could rub off on them if they could just get close enough . |
| 18 | After this freak show , we are led inexorably to what everyone has waited for ; the re-assemblage of The Birthday Party for a mini-greatest hits package of ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ , and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 19 | That road leads inexorably to her work for the sick , the dying and the distressed . |
| 20 | This is what people do before parties : she has seen them doing it on television : indeed , she used to do it herself when she was young , when she had no need of such substances , before she reverted so inexorably to her ancestral type . |
| 21 | She does not pretend that Ben 's ordeal resulted directly from the ban , but she believes it contributed to the chain of events which led inexorably to his present stay in south-east London 's Bethlem Hospital . |
| 22 | He tossed the garment casually on to a chair , and her eyes were drawn inexorably to his broad expanse of chest . |
| 23 | Cy McCray was riding one of the joint favourites and , somewhat to her surprise , Harry Short had retained Damien Gould to ride Heraldic , a three-year-old with negligible form . |
| 24 | Somewhat to her surprise , Harry was smiling . |
| 25 | With the exception of the Sergeant in the Princeps ' seat , those inside the head had not been able to notice the fireball behind them , though the blast wave contributed somewhat to their sway . |
| 26 | There were even rumours that it was going to go straight through the middle of Henry s house , a thought that , somewhat to his surprise , filled him with savage pleasure . |
| 27 | Somewhat to his surprise , Dalgliesh found himself accepting . |
| 28 | Somewhat to his surprise he heard himself telling her so . |
| 29 | Rory loved it , somewhat to his surprise ; a holiday from holidays . |
| 30 | Somewhat to his surprise , he was put through to her at once . |