Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 . |
| 2 | Similarly , his views on architecture , education and social issues have brought him much closer to the man in the street than any of his relatives . |
| 3 | But it seemed Ace had n't finished with her yet , and soon she was incapable of any thought at all , rational or otherwise , as he took her once more to the edge of paradise . |
| 4 | I then took her forward slightly to the evening after the operation , a time when she was fully awake and over the more drastic effects of the anaesthetic . |
| 5 | He had learnt about it much closer to the time of the murder . |
| 6 | He forced it close enough to the edge to allow the Toyota to creep past on the inside . |
| 7 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 8 | If used for entertaining , it 's a good idea to locate it as close to the house as possible . |
| 9 | Yeah , the , the that way there , I would n't say that was he were , I do n't think he far enough to the right , to be on the playing field . |
| 10 | The Company 's line of communication , which placed it fairly close to the centre of northern North America , was already long and was open only in the ice-free months . |
| 11 | Had I hit it a bit harder , I would have got it quite close to the flag . ’ |
| 12 | He managed to hack it forward just to the angle of the fairway , and had still not reached his opponents ' drives which were about thirty yards ahead . |
| 13 | He/she must walk a tightrope too : interpret a tentative remark too directly and you may sound rude — but reproducing it too closely to the original may sound so tentative as to be confusing in the other language . |
| 14 | The opening carried me forward straight to the end . |
| 15 | He finished his coffee , slid his papers into a folder and took me forward again to the horse car . |
| 16 | There may be the germs of many good ideas there , but to allow them out and pick them over is to expose them too soon to the light of day . |
| 17 | In this way then the couplet brings together the three themes of each section and relates them very strongly to the speaker and the listener , with the use of ‘ thou ’ . |
| 18 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 19 | The apparently quaint mediaeval notion of ‘ playing the game of the Passion ’ , I want to suggest , brings us nearer both to the way Caldwell Cook approached scripted work with his pupils and ( more relevant to what will be discussed in the rest of this chapter ) to classroom drama . |
| 20 | We may now represent the mental capacities of the cerebral hemispheres of an advanced organism in a simple model that gets us far closer to the condition of our own species ( Fig. 2. i ) . |
| 21 | We may reasonably think that the vase-picture of the Underworld does bring us really close to the composition of a lost wall-painting , but it is adapted to the small , curved surface of a pot ( though , being a calyx-krater , the curve is only horizontal , and it does retain some of the character of a wall ) , and there are other important differences , in particular the nature of the red-figure technique . |