Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has sometimes led to rail company policies of resisting cutbacks , restoring services ( e.g. in the home states of influential congressmen ) and avoiding staff reductions . |
| 2 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 3 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 4 | This will operate under the name of Focus Sales Group , and will distribute titles from publishers of black writing , men 's and women 's issues , psychology , personal development , recovery and new thought — publishers like Shambhala itself , Chiron , Parallax and Siga ( all three having recently transferred to Airlift from other distributors ) , Beacon , Hazelden , Writers & Readers , Parabola and Spring Publications , among others . |
| 5 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 6 | Hundreds of thousands have already starved to death . |