Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The offices are used not just by us but also by several local voluntary organisations , and we are anxious that they can have access to them again as soon as possible , ’ Mr Alton said . |
| 2 | It is odd , and neatly illustrative of the contradiction in Spartan attitudes , that Herodotus can say of the Spartan-led Greeks in the same period that Samos ‘ seemed to them as far away as the Rock of Gibraltar ’ , while telling elsewhere in his book of a Spartan , son of Archias , who was called Samios because of his father 's Samian links ( viii . |
| 3 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 4 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |
| 5 | A further summons assembled another army , which this time was joined by the king , but when they all met " it came to nothing as so often before " , and Æthelred returned to London on hearing that some intended to betray him . |
| 6 | Resolving to pass them on to someone else as soon as possible , Robert took hold of both locket and manuscript and put them in his jacket pocket . |
| 7 | You 'll see them talking to somebody else somewhere else and you 're serving this person . |
| 8 | Where the reformers did start to understand , they perceived that those aspirations were to something much more even than that complete political democracy which required no property qualification ; and they did not like the perception . |
| 9 | A woman who wanted a divorce because her husband made love to her not very often and not very well did n't get it . |
| 10 | While Gemma , who had never thought very much about it , her own education having come to her just as easily and plentifully as soap and hot water and extremely private sanitary arrangements , had found it something to think about now , when any new thought would have been welcome . |
| 11 | It 's been a bit difficult because we are used to doing the things that choirs do , having music and hiding behind it , and of course getting the girls to be uninhibited has been a bit difficult , but they 've taken to it very well actually and having the costumes for today 's rehearsals has been a great help . |