Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 2 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 3 | True , there is a general drift through time towards more complex plants , more perfectly adapted to life away from water , but primitive species have persisted alongside the innovations . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 5 | Caballé , and from the past Johanna Gadski , who rather unexpectedly comes to mind more than once ) , and in ‘ O patria mia ’ the high C , the As too , are louder than one would have wished . |