Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as if I 'll always have somewhere to come home to . |
| 2 | Gower needed just two runs to reach 7,000 in his hundredth Test and got them , only to fall immediately to a quite unnecessary flick down the leg side . |
| 3 | My two daughters are lucky enough to go frequently to their friends ' parties , invariably attended by a dozen or so children clutching a present which has cost their parents between £3 and £5 . |
| 4 | This pipe , called the discharge pipe , soil pipe or soil stack , runs vertically down to connect directly to the drains ; the top of it is open to the air at least 900mm above the top of any opening windows which are within 3m of the stack , unless a relief valve is fitted to the top of the stack ( see drawing ) . |
| 5 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 6 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 7 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 8 | Better to surrender quietly to that hell of pain , to slide into it , to crumble and fold like burning straw , to merge and coalesce and become one with it , until , phoenix-like , she floated away on the other side , whole and free . |
| 9 | You pack your bags , shut the door , switch off the lights and you go home and you 've got the , the r another thirty odd years perhaps to look forward to in retirement . |
| 10 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 11 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 12 | This is because objectivity is usually narrowed down to refer only to a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 13 | A barn owl is n't strong enough to hold tight to a glove in a strong wind . |
| 14 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 15 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 16 | One Harvard dealer an American boy , was fortunate enough to get close to this quickly By putting a wealthy client into some circumspect account trades , and so actually making him a lot of money , the dealer earned the client 's gratitude . |
| 17 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 18 | Cadfael went to meet them as Sulien lighted down to speak hurriedly to the porter . |
| 19 | Shelley went in to speak quietly to her patients , trying to push to the back of her mind the knowledge that she might have left the drug cupboard open in her anxiety yesterday . |
| 20 | It says that sales of meat have remained constant during the past 20 years , standing at 64.2 kg a head per year in 1970 , dipping slightly to 63.4 kg in 1980 , only to rise again to 65.4 kg in 1990 . |
| 21 | This touching but morbid In Memoriam served only to bring home to me the realisation of what now seemed inevitable . |
| 22 | He suddenly decided not to go home to the cottage he shared with his widowed mother . |
| 23 | In contrast , it will be interesting to see how far Deutsche Bank succeeds with its acquisition of Morgan Grenfell in 1989 , having chosen not to react immediately to the Big Bang by acquiring a merchant banking subsidiary in London in 1986 . |
| 24 | But , from personal experience , done properly it 's a hell of a lot better than walking out ignored and hard not to respond honestly to . |
| 25 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 26 | But there were earls present , Strathearn , Lennox and Ross , who were conditioned not to take over-kindly to too much prominence for a mere knight , even one of so illustrious a line as Dalwolsey . |
| 27 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 28 | He spoke of it a lot that evening : not to bring home to her all he 'd done but rather because it 'd been perhaps the biggest single event in his ( now rather dull ) life . |
| 29 | And so it was my experience not to become closer to him in our isolation but to approach myself more closely . |
| 30 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |