Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 2 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 3 | This pipe , called the discharge pipe , soil pipe or soil stack , runs vertically down to connect directly to the drains ; the top of it is open to the air at least 900mm above the top of any opening windows which are within 3m of the stack , unless a relief valve is fitted to the top of the stack ( see drawing ) . |
| 4 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 5 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 6 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 7 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 8 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 9 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 10 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 11 | For organizations and clubs first timing it in this area Kinloss Canoe Club can always provide an experienced canoeist guide ( usually an instructor ) to join your flotilla and paddle along to give up to the minute on the spot information , or if you wish , to lead on the water , all at not cost , especially on the Findhorn . |
| 12 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 13 | After a week together , Jakki flew back to Britain in floods of tears , only to fly back to the States again three days later to interview Madonna . |
| 14 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 15 | A barn owl is n't strong enough to hold tight to a glove in a strong wind . |
| 16 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 17 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 18 | The loss of that money is resented by at least one member of the England Committee , who told me : ‘ Our football in Sweden was the worst in my lifetime , but we should be strong enough to face up to the situation . |
| 19 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 20 | Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval . |
| 21 | Cadfael went to meet them as Sulien lighted down to speak hurriedly to the porter . |
| 22 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 23 | Having tried unsuccessfully to reach him through his office — he edits a weekly newspaper for veterans of the wartime resistance — I decided finally to drive out to the village of Roztoky where he spends much of his time . |
| 24 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 25 | John had asked her not to go up to the loft . |
| 26 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 27 | This is a time to go forward with conviction and confidence , not to go back to the failure and bitter controversies of the past . |
| 28 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 29 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 30 | He suddenly decided not to go home to the cottage he shared with his widowed mother . |