Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 2 | This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance . |
| 3 | Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer . |
| 4 | So onward to Week 3 . |
| 5 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 6 | The man stayed under the cow long enough to milk three , at times saying something angrily to himself . |
| 7 | Adult males retain a pride only long enough to father one batch of young females for the pride . |
| 8 | It is highly addictive , comparably so to heroin or cocaine according to the US Surgeon General , and the health risks are long-term ones , so that starting is easier and quitting is more difficult . |
| 9 | Popular , so better to book you table . |
| 10 | If you have a Caribbean or African background you may be susceptible to high blood pressure and to diabetes , but less so to heart disease . |
| 11 | It 's easy to sway the emotions by showing monkeys with their brains cut open , genetically stunted pigs or smoking beagles , less so to drag on someone suffering from a vile disease and say ‘ this person will die unless we keep on chopping up small furry creatures . ’ |
| 12 | What I found amazing , to the extent of keeping me occupied combating fluoridation during the past 20 years on a more-than full-time basis , was that the sales promotion experts employed to build the fluoridation bandwagon have been able for so long to lull most scientists and politicians into accepting this method of diluting and dumping waste fluorides at public expense . |
| 13 | And nothing condemned a woman so swiftly to womanhood as grappling with a man . |
| 14 | SESSION 30 watt , 2 channel amp , loud enough to gig , footswitch , cover , as new , £80 . |
| 15 | He gripped her upper arms , his fingers pressing cruelly into her tender flesh as he shoved her none too gently away to arm 's length . |
| 16 | ‘ If we were in funds , I 'd never leave so soon to Christmas unless there was a disaster somewhere . |
| 17 | We could n't go so easily to theatre , opera or ballet , for it was painful for Michael to remain long in one position . |
| 18 | But it , too , addresses itself much more to feminism than to psychology . |
| 19 | We need to ensure that we get a ferry between Rathlin and Ballycastle which can operatate the whole year round and open the island much more to tourist traffic and economic development . |
| 20 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 21 | Not since the Second World War had Congress remained in session so close to election day , and with mid-term elections on Nov. 6 rapidly approaching , a compromise budget was at last finally agreed . |
| 22 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even so close to shore , the sea is full of the souls of the drowned . |
| 25 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't know I could have such a good time so close to home . |
| 27 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 28 | Some regard it as so close to bribery it should be banned . |
| 29 | We have arrived at chapter 22 , but before we deal with it in detail , we must look quickly at another story that lies between Isaac 's birth and his coming so soon and so close to death . |
| 30 | She had come so close to death . |