Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 2 | The sexual pendulum has now swung back to a more central position , and that 's good news ! |
| 3 | It has now reverted back to a quiet village , disturbed only at weekends by visitors from surrounding areas who come to fish , walk the frontage and watch the departure or arrival of passenger ferries and other shipping . |
| 4 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |
| 5 | She turns to the visitor , who has now subsided on to a settee . |
| 6 | Now effectively shy of two of those founders , it has essentially retracted back to a die-hard core of some two dozen companies from a highly publicised swell of some 250 industry lights . |
| 7 | It says right get on to a new line . |
| 8 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 9 | Erm we 'd better get on to a few other things . |
| 10 | Chatterton made fast progress over to a quartet of comfortable armchairs . |
| 11 | It is very difficult at times to say whether the clusters do really add up to a representation of the whole . |
| 12 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
| 13 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 14 | Anne had already trimmed down to a reasonable weight with the help of Weight Watchers , and she pleaded for new ideas to strengthen her resolve . |
| 15 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 16 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 17 | Well , you 've certainly got off to a cracking start , mocked a small ironic voice inside her . |
| 18 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |
| 19 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 20 | If you wish to have separate UICs , simply copy the account you have already set up to a new UIC and VMS account name . |
| 21 | French windows stood open leading on to a strip of highly polished , red tiled terrace . |
| 22 | Imagine you have just moved in to a new flat . |