Example sentences of "[adv] to [pos pn] " 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 | At nights he imagined she was beside him in bed , naked and wanton , submitting eagerly to his advances . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That road leads inexorably to her work for the sick , the dying and the distressed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He tossed the garment casually on to a chair , and her eyes were drawn inexorably to his broad expanse of chest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Somewhat to her surprise , Harry was smiling . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Somewhat to his surprise , Dalgliesh found himself accepting . |
| 17 | Somewhat to his surprise he heard himself telling her so . |
| 18 | Rory loved it , somewhat to his surprise ; a holiday from holidays . |
| 19 | Somewhat to his surprise , he was put through to her at once . |
| 20 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 21 | From Waterloo station , he phoned the offices of The Courier and somewhat to his surprise , found himself put straight through to Jonathan Minter . |
| 22 | I am gregarious , cerebral , Geminian , and have sought , somewhat to my cost , to make the world my home . |
| 23 | The mention that I was journeying via Marseilles prompted him to warn me , somewhat to my surprise , not to let the street-girls of the special quarter ( since abolished ) commandeer my hat — a favourite play of theirs to inveigle one inside — which suggested that he had experienced such an approach . |
| 24 | The crisis passed , somewhat to my surprise , and I would not dismiss the possibility that Eliot , acting so as to ensure that the information should not be disclosed to me , had something to do with it . |
| 25 | The crane ratchets of the later arrivals could still be heard clearly as their crews outramped , and rising bow waves could be spotted as an occasional laggard powered upstream to its proper place in the echelon . |
| 26 | But must a foraging hyena be conscious of the food it has not yet uncovered , or a homing salmon aware of its destination as it begins the laborious trip upstream to its natal stream to spawn ; both exemplars of goal-seeking behaviour ? |
| 27 | And every delay is henceforth to our opponents ' advantage . |
| 28 | She presented it trustfully to her Uncle Alan as he came in , to be mended . |
| 29 | There is one plan to link staff in with workers from voluntary agencies , and another to train social workers to work with interpreters , gain confidence in working with the Chinese community and respond better to its problems . |
| 30 | Track one is a growling , clapping disco song with a peace message , but far better to my ears are ‘ Klangers ’ , a similar groove which sounds like it has in fact got The Klangers on it although it 's probably just a synth , and ‘ The Horns Of Jerricurl ’ ( geddit ? ) which unfolds the depths of their groove and lays bare their sense of humour . |