Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We travelled on Friday , hoping for an early night and a crisp , prompt start the next morning , and so far everything was under control , right down to having remembered that all-important flask . |
| 2 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 3 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 4 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 5 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 6 | But there were times when Boro looked vulnerable with the Tigers so close to providing the unexpected . |
| 7 | It was the manifest failure of the Bolsheviks to retain the confidence of the masses , their resort to brutal coercion , which enabled the openly reactionary Whites to come so close to overthrowing them . |
| 8 | Never had Leith come so close to hitting a man . |
| 9 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 10 | Ames , who went so close to winning in Madeira last month , then birdied the seventeenth as well to join Gilford on nine under par on the last tee with Spence one stroke behind . |
| 11 | Or simply because they had come so close to rescuing him ? |
| 12 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 13 | But we ca n't get so close to freeing Nuadu and fail now . ’ |
| 14 | Hill , Bangor 's quiet , consistent midfielder went oh so close to scoring a second for Bangor — a goal which would have put the Seasiders through . |
| 15 | Last term Milne 's men came so close to grabbing more silverware , finishing second in the table and losing the Cup final to double-winners Galatasaray . |
| 16 | She had come so close to losing the man she loved . |
| 17 | The adventurous plan came so close to working and certainly won Ipswich a host of new admirers . |
| 18 | Sheffield 's Fidel Castro Smith has been given a reward for going so close to beating Henry Wharton in their exciting super-middleweight fight at Leeds United 's Elland Road this week . |
| 19 | They came so close to doing that . |
| 20 | The sturdy Scot , who came so close to doing precisely that at Pebble Beach 12 months ago , is convinced the gruelling par-70 course demands wonderful , long iron play . |
| 21 | The first major success of the year went to Ian Horrox who succeeded on the Kilnsey route he came so close to finishing last year . |
| 22 | In the view of the Minister , ‘ There is obviously more to preserving the nation 's security than safeguarding against subversion , terrorism and espionage . ’ |
| 23 | It is the West 's firmest commitment so far to helping clean up environmental damage in the East but also its clearest statement yet that it is not willing or able to pay for the process . |
| 24 | Constable Arthur Perkins was a phlegmatic man , resigned long ago to losing his hair and his prospects for promotion as he worked out his years in an area singularly free of serious crime . |
| 25 | Numerous theorists approach their work armed with interpretations or modified versions of Marxism , and to stick so firmly to elucidating Marx 's own texts might seem a rather scholastic project , in the pejorative sense of that phrase . |
| 26 | Biographies written in the liberal tradition come much closer to recreating the mentality of their subjects than formalistic , hagiographic Soviet equivalents . |
| 27 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |
| 28 | Jane Pargeter had come much closer to losing her job than she pretended . |
| 29 | The rock runs the whole gamut , from superb pocketed limestone right through to tottering black bulges , though fortunately all the best routes studiously avoid the latter . |
| 30 | erm so erm I do n't know it 's just down to generating some questions . |