Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 2 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 3 | If you have a strong proposition to put to the consumer , it certainly makes sense to draw attention to it as strongly as possible , and the headline might be the right place to do it . |
| 4 | At present , the Bartók Quartet have the field to themselves as far as sets of the complete string works are concerned , so these 1974 recordings can be confidently recommended . |
| 5 | I resolved to explain the situation to them as briefly as possible , make a plea for money and then very rapidly leave . |
| 6 | and they said oh we 'll get the list to you , the full list to you as soon as possible I mean |
| 7 | she decided to put an end to it as gently as possible . |
| 8 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |