Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 've known each other all our lives — our parents even went to college together .
2 Five years or so passed and the boy even went to school there .
3 In a country like Great Britain , for example , even though less than fifteen per cent of the population regularly go to church over seventy per cent still claim to believe in a God of some kind .
4 Chris Law 's last-minute attempt to win a place in the British Olympic team briefly flickered to life yesterday when he won a Soling race in the French Olympic Classes Regatta at Hyeres , finishing in front of Lawrie Smith , writes David Pelly .
5 Crashing the car , taking someone else 's life with them , terrible situations , terrible tragedies can come about because a person physically goes to sleep so it can be in a spiritual sense that we can nod off to sleep and not only our lives are involved , but our fellow brothers ' and sisters ' too ,
6 It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time .
7 Basically my message said that I could make some general comments mainly relating to style rather than accuracy but if the deadline had passed so be it .
8 As he speaks , the line suddenly comes to life again , and flashes over to the starboard side , and then cuts in front of the boat .
9 The pre-eminence apparently accorded to Christianity here may reflect the position in the country as a whole ; but it is easy to see how some religious groups would identify an implicit suggestion by the section that the other religious traditions in Great Britain are less important .
10 Lennie spoilt everything for George but George never seemed to mind terribly much .
11 whose nobility of soul never stoops to treachery even if his life or livelihood is at stake ,
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