Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided that there was no point in returning to Hoddom , so messengers were sent to acquaint the main Scots army of the position and to bring them on here to Annan in the morning . |
| 2 | Sarah collected some mugs from a cupboard and set them down close to the coffee maker ; she looked impatiently at the level of coffee in the jug , as if the slowness of the process was a familiar annoyance . |
| 3 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 4 | " It must be someone in your mother 's past , someone reasonably close to her . |
| 5 | I had arranged myself ( while she arranged the flowers I 'd brought ) with my back nearly to the light . |
| 6 | It is quite a small world , and sooner or later we might be lucky enough to get someone really close to Leeds on the list . |
| 7 | One or two people at the other end were snoring and once someone quite close to me shouted in his sleep : |
| 8 | But as , presumably , they had been wiped off the face of the earth by someone pretty close to Ella Walsh or Rose Fox , there seemed little point in asking about them . |
| 9 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 10 | that would be of interest , sort of allow them not only to be interested but would , would show them a variety of graphic design based on similar ideas . |
| 11 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 12 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 13 | If Fumaroli fears for the future of French traditions , if he worries that his students will one day no longer be reading Montaigne and Proust , he should address himself not just to Mr Lang , but also to Mr Berlusconi and Mr Murdoch and Mr Hersant . |
| 14 | Then , blushing , he addressed himself once more to what he was doing . |
| 15 | Digby Wyatt 's earliest extant building is the Gothic Aldingham Hall , Cumbria , of 1846 to 1850 , and although he designed the Pompeian , Byzantine , English Gothic , Italian and Renaissance Courts at the re-erected Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 , and The Art Journal commented that he had ‘ in practice attached himself more heartily to the classic ’ , he felt , like Scott , that the nineteenth century should have its particular form of architecture , but unlike Scott , he thought that this should be an adaptation of the Cinquecento style . |
| 16 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 17 | And to devote himself more fully to his hobby . |
| 18 | Twice eighteen month old Pickle dragged himself home close to death with the noose pulled tight around his neck |
| 19 | The snakes multiplied , swarming over her , binding her more tightly to the chair . |
| 20 | He paused and drew himself up proudly to his full height again . |
| 21 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 22 | With regard to the three-note chords it will be safest for the student who has no practical knowledge of string-technique to confine himself almost entirely to those which contain at least one open string . |
| 23 | Then he flung himself neatly across to the bed , thinking agreeably of life with Fred and Daisy as he went , and another spring broke . |
| 24 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 25 | That here 's this discussion with you before I know some of you , but the very nature of the salesman , does n't lend himself very well to being organised . |
| 26 | They thought that he reconciled himself too easily to his position , and that he had developed a taste for exile as an escape from business . |
| 27 | I feel very happy about my form and technique , very content , ’ he adds , having learnt from a poor tour of Australia the winter before last to adapt his technique and not commit himself too soon to a stroke . |
| 28 | " … were all hoping that this would not be a continuing situation , Steve , " Mr Smith said , droning nasally from behind the chip-board desk in his low-ceilinged office on the depot 's first floor , " and that you would be able to consolidate your position here by forming a positive working relationship with the remainder of the road gang , who , in all fairness , I 'm sure you 'd be the first to agree , have done their very best to well … " |
| 29 | Many adult educators also regarded its concern for ‘ effective service delivery ’ , i.e. coordinating all the relevant social , health , environmental , housing agencies and concentrating their expertise and resources on particular disadvantaged communities , linking them more effectively to local needs , as a total ‘ community learning network ’ . |
| 30 | The same German reform reinforced the ‘ insurance ’ principle behind pensions , by tying them more closely to past contributions . |