Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , thought Meredith grimly when she had arrived back in the kitchen of Rose Cottage , do we rush on madly to our doom . |
| 2 | Tom did very well at the Guildhall where nobody told him he should stop singing , a piece of good news he passed on triumphantly to his grandmother . |
| 3 | It is at these times that the ghosts flock most cordially to our summons . ’ |
| 4 | In the wild , fungi are part of the ‘ death and decay ’ complex whereby tissues of animal and plant origin are broken down biologically to their component nitrogenous and other chemical constituents . |
| 5 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 6 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 7 | Ali bent down close to his ear and whispered : ‘ You in pain ? ’ |
| 8 | Catherine behaved so sweetly to her husband in the next few days that Thrushcross Grange seemed full of sunshine , and in spite of his doubts , Mr Edgar allowed Heathcliff to visit her regularly . |
| 9 | The silver-haired gentleman , who turned out to be fluent in English and very charming in a gracious sort of way , chatted to her amiably about the south of France , though Alyssia did n't miss the way his eyes wandered unconsciously across to his wife every so often . |
| 10 | Unable to free himself from the tangle of ropes and floats , Miles swam laboriously across to his daughter . |
| 11 | The seated position corresponds more readily to our body posture during the day when stress develops . |
| 12 | At other times , William Joyce referred more vaguely to his father as being of independent means . |
| 13 | The necklace was a collar of dull silver , two hinged silver pieces knobbed with moonstones which snapped into place around her lean neck and rose up almost to her chin so that she could hardly move her head . |
| 14 | I had come out relentlessly to my family , my friends , colleagues and everyone else who came into my life . |
| 15 | And then anger took its place , and she moved sharply across to her bed and rang the bell . |
| 16 | In the same way , the old horsemen believed that the milt and the frog 's or toad 's bone contributed almost wholly to their skill in drawing or jading their horses . |
| 17 | Whoever had struck her had come perilously close to her eye . |
| 18 | Parking is a major problem , often because vehicles are parked too close to their vehicle . |
| 19 | If you do use wide-angle , be careful not to come too close to your subject , as this can produce odd distortion effects . |
| 20 | In 1945 he announced Japan 's surrender on the radio : ‘ The war situation has developed not necessarily to our advantage . ’ |
| 21 | In assessing materiality in connection with convertible securities , consideration should be given not only to their carrying amount but also to the implications of conversion . |
| 22 | As it slid down the avenue the old crow , which had risen and was circling warily , dropped down again to its crust . |
| 23 | Despite the difficulties Frere was committed to his new life and regretted only that enthusiasm came less easily to his wife . |
| 24 | When Liz came downstairs again to her party , after a ritual exchange ( how could her sister bear such intercourse ? how could it go on ? ) she found that she had lost her velocity . |
| 25 | By this good turn the bishop won the hearts of all , and the people began to listen more readily to his teaching , hoping to obtain heavenly blessings through the ministry of one to whom they already owed these material benefits ; Eddius Stephanus then pointed out that those ungrateful enough not to convert willingly did so at the king 's command . |
| 26 | She wished she had written more often to her aunt , and better letters ; but then as Jenny had said , she was not very good at writing letters . |
| 27 | He describes five years of hell and terror , as the bulldozers clearing space for Ceausescu 's Palace came ever closer to his house . |
| 28 | Her bare flesh came close enough to his face for him to inhale its pungent female odour and he peered around desperately into the gloom for some sign of his French companion . |
| 29 | He came back unsmilingly to her side . |
| 30 | The notion of absence of a before/after relation between the bare infinitive and the verb to which it is incident can be applied quite readily to its use with auxiliary do , if one takes into account the peculiar nature of auxiliaries . |