Example sentences of "[adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His enthusiasm communicated itself to the voters who responded eagerly to his promise of a " New Deal " , and he polled 22 million votes to Hoover 's 15 million , carrying 42 out of 48 states . |
| 2 | When it was pressed again , doggedly but almost blindly , he struck the questing sword expertly out of the hand that held it , with only the measured force required , and reached a hand eagerly to his adversary as he crumpled to his knees . |
| 3 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 4 | That road leads inexorably to her work for the sick , the dying and the distressed . |
| 5 | Cy McCray was riding one of the joint favourites and , somewhat to her surprise , Harry Short had retained Damien Gould to ride Heraldic , a three-year-old with negligible form . |
| 6 | Somewhat to her surprise , Harry was smiling . |
| 7 | With the exception of the Sergeant in the Princeps ' seat , those inside the head had not been able to notice the fireball behind them , though the blast wave contributed somewhat to their sway . |
| 8 | There were even rumours that it was going to go straight through the middle of Henry s house , a thought that , somewhat to his surprise , filled him with savage pleasure . |
| 9 | Somewhat to his surprise , Dalgliesh found himself accepting . |
| 10 | Somewhat to his surprise he heard himself telling her so . |
| 11 | Rory loved it , somewhat to his surprise ; a holiday from holidays . |
| 12 | Somewhat to his surprise , he was put through to her at once . |
| 13 | From Waterloo station , he phoned the offices of The Courier and somewhat to his surprise , found himself put straight through to Jonathan Minter . |
| 14 | I am gregarious , cerebral , Geminian , and have sought , somewhat to my cost , to make the world my home . |
| 15 | The mention that I was journeying via Marseilles prompted him to warn me , somewhat to my surprise , not to let the street-girls of the special quarter ( since abolished ) commandeer my hat — a favourite play of theirs to inveigle one inside — which suggested that he had experienced such an approach . |
| 16 | The crisis passed , somewhat to my surprise , and I would not dismiss the possibility that Eliot , acting so as to ensure that the information should not be disclosed to me , had something to do with it . |
| 17 | His hands left her hair , moved swiftly down her spine , cupping her rear suddenly and pressing her tighter against his hard body , a harsh groan coming from the back of his throat as one strong hand swept suddenly to her breast , and as he touched and stroked her there she gave a fierce moan of excitement , whispering incoherent words against his mouth in blind , overpowering , dazed response . |
| 18 | She was desperate to move now , physical awareness returning suddenly to her body and making her realise that she was numb in her left leg and stiff everywhere else . |
| 19 | Fiona gave a sort of strangled laugh , then put one hand up suddenly to her nose , and looked away , and sobbed once . |
| 20 | And suddenly to my horror I saw our delightfully edited little film of The Seekers and Georgie Girl . |
| 21 | Thus the wheel has come full circle : the main feature in the design of the primitive sickle is included — much to its advantage — in the latest models of the combine harvester . |
| 22 | In Part Two I will suggest a way in which the important contribution that anomie theory makes to understanding crime can be reformulated in classical terms , much to its benefit . |
| 23 | The quality of even our grandest scenery owes much to its intimacy of scale . |
| 24 | It has been suggested ( Walker , 1982 , p. 11 ) that the popularity of ‘ community care , owes much to its flexibility and adaptability — the term can be used to describe a wide range of institutions and services ( and , critics would add , the lack of them too ) . |
| 25 | The art owes much to its predecessor , kung fu , which was the root of its modern development . |
| 26 | Birmingham 's popularity with meeting planners owes much to its ease of accesses from all parts of the UK and Europe . |
| 27 | He revised the work very thoroughly , and much to its improvement , in 1880 — two years after completing not only ‘ Eugene Onegin ’ and the Fourth Symphony , but his disastrous marriage as well . |
| 28 | it increases the complexity of the description without , in my view , contributing much to its value . |
| 29 | In turn , the types of constructions in which a verb may appear owe much to its meaning . |
| 30 | Through her travels and writings ( which included a novel , Maid of Sark , in 1939 and an autobiography , Dame of Sark , 1961 ) and television , radio , and press interviews , her island became known worldwide and its subsequent prosperity owed much to her determination to retain its unique laws and peaceful atmosphere , unpolluted by cars or aeroplanes . |