Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To relax would mean giving in and conceding to a common prejudice which does nothing to enhance women 's esteem . |
| 2 | A cat inhibits the desire to spring prematurely and controls to a deliberate end its eagerness for the instant gratification of a natural appetite . |
| 3 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 4 | The path , climbing thus far , veers away a little and keeps to a parallel course along the broad top of Scales Moor where there are scattered manifestations of limestone , notably a fluted pothole near the path . |
| 5 | She walked on and came to a one-story building surrounded by a cordon of wire fencing . |
| 6 | Somewhere in Verona , apparently , there is an academic who answers all correspondence sent to the imaginary , dead woman Juliet Capulet , which is just the kind of ironic nugget Costello would seize on and enlarge to a 20-song opus . |
| 7 | At this stage I gave up , went back home and retired to a half-darkened room to read the paper . |
| 8 | He passed into the saloon , found the companionway at once and descended to a central passage . |
| 9 | He stood up and went to a battered grey filing cabinet , rummaged through it , and grunted . |
| 10 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 11 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 12 | From now on smokers must clock out and go to a special room for each cigarette break . |
| 13 | You either stand up and walk out and go to a different class , or you join in . |
| 14 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 15 | These molecules are proteins , which are embedded in the cell 's surface membrane and have one portion that sticks out and binds to a similar or complementary molecule on adjacent cells . |
| 16 | Health Works readers can ring in free today and talk to a trained nutritionist about diet . |
| 17 | Well , I applied and was accepted , rigged out with clothes , shoes etc and sent to a large country house near Burton on Trent for training . |
| 18 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
| 19 | But everybody knows that , in other games at other times with oter referees , goalkeepers will dally and dawdle to a greater degree and get away with it . |
| 20 | ‘ If only one were going to court freely and looking to a bright future — 't is different for you ! ’ |