Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 2 | There is slightly more to go on with the latter however , and one seems justified in presuming the work of at least two men . |
| 3 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 4 | Her very longevity in office now appeared as a handicap to a party which needed to look forward to the 1990s not back to the battles of the 1980s . |
| 5 | Soon they will have to go up to the front-line again . |
| 6 | Even so , I do n't know how he survived that fall ; God knows what he broke , how he suffered , how long he took to crawl there to the other slightly brighter patch of light ; how long he took to die . |
| 7 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 8 | In the initial post-war period , young people were a relatively ‘ affluent ’ group who were able to earn more from the 1950s onwards than they had done previously , thus creating the phenomenon of the ‘ teenage consumer ’ ( Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |