Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you come home to a nice warm , brightly lit home with plenty of piping hot water to soak-away the dust of travel . |
| 2 | Lower down we emerged on to a more open country of grass-covered hills , with delphiniums gladioli and other flowers growing along the banks of the many streams . |
| 3 | So they looked forward to a boat coming in ? |
| 4 | Together they add up to a ‘ magical ’ mix of people and products to give you , the architectural specifier , extra confidence — extra choice . |
| 5 | So he went back to a boy — one of the best , came highly recommended . |
| 6 | So it gets back to a question of confidence again ? |
| 7 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 8 | Because usually you go off to a restaurant and if there 's twenty of you you ca n't sit together can you ? |
| 9 | Now we come on to an immediate question , night flights which er there is concern about . |
| 10 | Now they tripped merrily to a schoolhouse of golden Cotswold stone burnished by a golden English sun in a bright blue heaven inhabited by a golden English God . |
| 11 | Now it speeds up to an eyeblink . |
| 12 | Now he edges closer to an open break with his Soviet benefactors . |
| 13 | Eventually they settle in to a new home — but life ca n't be that easy , can it ? |
| 14 | Well I went down to a rental firm , you know |
| 15 | Here you hit uphill to a green guarded by a seven-foot deep bunker . |
| 16 | Better still , why do n't you come along to a party we 're throwing tomorrow evening ? |
| 17 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 18 | Now here we move in to a bit of Plato always be aware of those who argue by analogy by general law life and limb must be protected yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life can you guess what 's coming next ? but a life is never wisely given to save a limb . |
| 19 | Then I moved on to an Australian made Maton which was really playable . |
| 20 | Go past that , then there 's one or two ne ne newish buildings and then you come up to a spot where you drive in and you go up or over the concrete , that 's Norblast |
| 21 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 22 | Then she padded across to a low stool and sat down , surveying herself in the mirror that lined her bathroom walls on two sides . |
| 23 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 24 | One day at 6.00 am we walked up to a disused school in our community and stood outside praying . |
| 25 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |
| 26 | Then they ground quickly to a halt , because the company had n't understood what a drain input-output would be on the functioning of the machine . |
| 27 | then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow . |
| 28 | " Then it comes down to a driver . " |
| 29 | Yeah it 's lovely there , yeah it 's erm a m just , a metre at both ends and then it shelves down to a metre and a half in the middle and it 's great , it 's warm , it 's , you know , it 's about about body heat actually . |
| 30 | Then he felt along to a door frame and followed its outline until he found a light-switch . |