Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 2 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 3 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |
| 4 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 5 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 6 | THE Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition has got off to a tremendous start with 54 wins coming from the first 72 fixtures . |
| 7 | PETER Scudamore 's neighbour Nigel Twiston-Davies has got off to a tremendous start this season with 24 wins in the bag already . |
| 8 | The second half has got off to a good start , with slightly higher orders for October . |
| 9 | TV Quick , the German interloper in the British TV listings market , has got off to a flying start . |
| 10 | Oxford University 's Matthew Syed has got off to a flying start in the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Italy , winning both his opening matches . |
| 11 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |
| 12 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 13 | In the early 1970s , Spencer Stuart himself considered selling out to a general consulting business . |
| 14 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 15 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 16 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
| 17 | As I write , the invitation has gone out to a thousand mainstream church leaders to attend a London conference , ‘ to equip church leaders who desire to develop the gift and ministry of prophecy . ’ |
| 18 | He wants to move down to a smaller house in Weybridge . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
| 20 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 21 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 22 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 23 | But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds . |
| 24 | The main discussion below of wake structure is intended to apply primarily to a self-preserving wake . |
| 25 | The killer is when you 've got to go out to a special occasion is n't it ? |
| 26 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 27 | I CAN NOT remember looking forward to a Tory conference with such relish . |
| 28 | As we approach the close of the next two thousand years , we are told to look forward to a new age — the Age of Aquarius , the water carrier . |
| 29 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 30 | IT 'S GOING TO BE A VERY INTERESTING RACE , AND IT LOOKS as if IMPROV FROM LOTUS — WHICH REALLY GRABS WINDOWS BY THE THROAT — IS GOING TO GET OFF TO A FLYING START . |