Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 2 | RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy . |
| 3 | Mr Dunn , of Springvale Road , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was pulled about half a mile out to sea . |
| 4 | Look , ’ she added sharply , aware of her pink cheeks and his mocking expression , ‘ I came all the way here to work , not to be insulted by you about my appearance , and I 'd like to get on , the light 's beginning to fade — is that all right with you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We are trying to bring everything up to date , ’ says Mr Lawrence , ‘ the way we sell , who we sell through , what we sell , the emphasis of core values all the way through to transparency of financial reporting . ’ |
| 6 | Killion ran all the way back to camp . |
| 7 | He is a head-on tackler who lines you up in his sights , closes down your space and — whack — you suddenly find yourself enveloped , smothered and smashed all the way back to square one . |
| 8 | ‘ Carry you all the way back to Water Gypsy ? |
| 9 | That particular party broke up at five , and two guests were persuaded to go to bed rather than drive all the way back to West Meath . |
| 10 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 11 | But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night |