Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 2 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 3 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 4 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 5 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 6 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 7 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 8 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 9 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 10 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 11 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 12 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 13 | Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days . |
| 14 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 15 | Had he gone out with the schedule the results would have been chaotic , yet he himself had not seen these double questions until they were pointed out to him at the internal testing stage . |
| 16 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 17 | All I had to do was to ferry myself out to her in the inflatable dinghy , with a jerrican of water and a bag of fresh vegetables , eggs , and some rashers of bacon . |
| 18 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 19 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 20 | ‘ We can get it chased up but it 's probably one they hand out to anybody about the right age when they 're on the job . |
| 21 | Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals . |
| 22 | This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand . |
| 23 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
| 24 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 25 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 26 | He followed their swift line as together they swung low over the water and landed , the splash of their coming rippling softly back to him on the still air . |
| 27 | Again Colm went two up at the tenth but Michael got it back to one at the 12 a birdie at the 14 brought the lead back to two up . |
| 28 | And when Cadfael came slowly back to her across the empty court , she stood in his way great-eyed , fronting him gravely as if she would penetrate into the most remote recesses of his mind . |
| 29 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 30 | I should be very reluctant to go back to anything like the old system , which gave a perverse incentive for landlords to provide board and lodging rather than other accommodation . |