Example sentences of "[adv] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 2 | Another is Padfoot , a creature with long , smooth hair who will creep unheard alongside a traveller , then suddenly rattle a chain , much to that person 's consternation . |
| 3 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
| 4 | It certainly continued to give opportunity for glory , for self-advancement , and for material gain ; in that respect it has not changed much to this day . |
| 5 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 6 | Sadly , Jimmy died in 1989 , but all of the achievements owe much to this dear , departed , friend . |
| 7 | Wave after wave of a pleasure bordering on exaltation raised her gently to some peak , ebbed a little , then carried her up again , more fiercely than before . |
| 8 | This proposal , rejected by Iran as failing to address the issue of troop withdrawals to internationally recognised boundaries , involved ( i ) direct talks between Iran and Iraq in each other 's capitals under UN auspices ; ( ii ) the unconditional release of all sick and wounded prisoners of war ( PoWs ) ; and ( iii ) the opening of the Iran-Iraq borders to allow the resumption of civilian travel , especially to each other 's Islamic shrines . |
| 9 | The ubiquity and sensitivity of magnetic minerals , the speed and versatility of measuring equipment and the persistence of magnetic linkages between source and sediment make the emerging methodology ideally suited to both process- and reconstruction-oriented catchment studies and more especially to that integration of the two approaches so strongly advocated in recent time . |
| 10 | She fell silent , unable to speak openly — especially to this man — of the torment writhing within her . |
| 11 | One answer that has been proposed is that they somehow ‘ tunnel ’ their way instantaneously to another part of the Universe — or even to an alternate Universe . |
| 12 | In 1295 Edward had confiscated for war purposes the apport ( or fixed due ) which religious houses and estates in England dependent on mother houses abroad , particularly in Normandy , paid annually to those mother houses . |
| 13 | Yet saying aloud to each other 's face , ‘ We do n't want to remain together in the next life ’ would amount to saying , ‘ No love ever existed between us , and no love exists between us now . ’ |
| 14 | Then your mother and grandmother read its scandals aloud to each other in the kitchen , with a monotonous note of sustained outrage that was never sated . |
| 15 | They are looking through the directory board in the foyer of the RCA building , reading aloud to each other all the names of firms they find ridiculous ( ‘ How about this ? |
| 16 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 17 | Looseknit networks are hard to deal with chiefly because a multi-valued speaker variable like social network involves comparing speakers who differ from each other in certain respects — let us say in respect of the multiplexity of the ties which they have contracted at the workplace — but are still similar enough to each other in other related respects to make such a comparison meaningful . |
| 18 | It looks the English breakfast fixing it up for , that 's what and if you , if you want to look at an X-ray , you will see that the arteries of the body , those are the arteries , bring the blood supply is blocked with arteriosclerosis , and there you can see the English breakfast , the yolk of egg , the butter and all these things that are in there , causing a blockage of the artery , not enough to that muscle , and a heart attack , death and all these unbelievable things , that give me a little bit of income . |
| 19 | Now he was looking at Toby with the pleading grin of the schoolboy planning a jape , and Toby , who was near enough to that stage to want to put it firmly behind him , would have loved to refuse . |
| 20 | American and European children had been known to respond well enough to this form of words and schooled Wolof children did so too . |
| 21 | Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands . |
| 22 | Then they come down to that price . |
| 23 | It 's down to that individual is n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ We see the volume just getting down to that core set who will see increased demand , ’ he said , adding that the industry 's top 10 companies had 58% of 1992 sales . |
| 25 | Dismissing him with difficulty from her mind , she went to her bedroom , smiling at the familiar old room , the shutters flung wide , overlooking the dusty terrace below , the bright pink bougainvillaea trailing like a Schiaparelli ballgown from the bleached balustrade walls below , down the rugged red cliffs , down to that turqouise , glittering sea . |
| 26 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 27 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 28 | The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level . |
| 29 | It is power that is going to ensure go down to that level of decision making , to those people who know the problems best and would be able to deliver the right solutions . |
| 30 | At thirty quid , all but 5p , I originally thought the package was a wee bit overpriced — I 'd have said £20 was a better price point for it , but then I expect that it will be discounted down to that level anyway . |