Example sentences of "[adv] to [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
2 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
3 | Chapter 12 is devoted entirely to thinking about the causal issues at stake . |
4 | Later in the war , as we shall see , the engineers ' struggle came close to merging with the larger pacifist cause : In 1916 , however , the brunt of resistance to the Military Service Act fell on those who were prepared to resist it directly — the conscientious objectors . |
5 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |
6 | But it was Bishops Cleve who went close to scoring on the half an hour as Cliff Powell on his debut ran through , his shot was parried by Paul Whittington in the Milton goal , and the Milton defence cleared the ball from the danger area as Mark Gill was on hand for Bishops to pounce on any mistakes made . |
7 | In her present sensitive frame of mind she did n't feel up to looking like the poor relation beside him , but then , she had no intention of going anywhere near him . |
8 | A bigger problem that converting between video standards is that fact that most older monitors are simply not up to working with the high resolutions that the PC needs . |
9 | That is carried , forty nine for , thirty two against , which brings us now to voting on the substantive motion . |
10 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
11 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
12 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
13 | That made people feel that their least effort was rewarded and they looked forward to participating in the next organizational improvement . |
14 | I look forward to hearing from the hon. Gentleman how he will deal with the complaints that I expect he will receive from his constituents , when he has to explain to those employed at Guy 's hospital why the Labour party 's policies would deny that hospital the opportunity to increase staff pay by £6 a week . |
15 | Now that she was free to choose , Ianthe looked forward to going to the same church every Sunday and finding her place in the congregation . |
16 | White collar representatives add they ’ look forward to talking to the new management and will be discussing job security and concerns over investment and training . ’ |
17 | Miss Perrie said later she was now looking forward to returning to the three-nights-a-week series . |
18 | He is also looking forward to working within the progressive and well-equipped eye department at the university hospital . |