Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Maria has to pretend not only to Glass that she no longer loves Leonard , but to Leonard too . |
| 3 | As the war progressed Hitler tended to listen only to advice that agreed with his own views and no one was willing to disagree with him . |
| 4 | Her previous calm gave away to terror that escalated until it threatened to overwhelm her . |
| 5 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
| 6 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 9 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 10 | Proof is now to hand that some exciting airframes are still there ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Edouard de Chavigny did : he was a fine athlete , with a blue for cricket , and had taken so well to rowing that , even though a late starter , he had narrowly missed selection for the Oxford eight . |
| 13 | At a guess , he may have heard from his colleague who came here to lunch that I feel rather isolated professionally at the moment . |
| 14 | For many people , disbelief in ‘ God the Father ’ is the closest to revenge that they can get . ’ |
| 15 | The closest to home that the firm came was the Pilmore Bridge . |
| 16 | During your first months with us , you can look forward to training that will help you carry out your role confidently and effectively . |
| 17 | There are stone pots and earthenware ones with luxury glazes , ancient pots that you find at house sales in the country , and , of course , plastic pots which now come textured and coloured so closely to terracotta that they can not be told apart . |