Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 2 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 3 | When you pick up the rec , the , the hands it will actually take you through to the nearest police control room area now , if it 's on the M eleven then most of the calls will go into Chelmsford , our police headquarters , once you cross over the borders and go into Metropolitan area , then that goes up to the Scotland Yard in their control rooms . |
| 4 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |
| 5 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 6 | The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards . |
| 7 | Two days later he tells me : ‘ It 's like they want to copy everything down to the smallest detail . |
| 8 | He swung her away to the farthest end of the floor from the new arrivals . |
| 9 | There were even police standing in the wings ready to cart everybody off to the nearest station should the forbidden line be recited . |
| 10 | If Kelly could see her now she 'd throw up her hands in horror and drag her off to the nearest restaurant to order the biggest meal on the menu . |
| 11 | Subsequently , he was often seen scratching at his groin on the set , and , guessing the nature of his problem , director Nicholas Ray marched him off to the nearest chemist for a healthy dose of crabocide . |
| 12 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 13 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 14 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 15 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 16 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think that quite sets it off to the best advantage , sir . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Afterwards , you can sit back and watch the investment grow handsomely , before you offer it out to the highest bidder and make a killing . |
| 19 | Laughter is a marvellous preventative medicine whether you feel low or not always it does you good if you take yourself off to the nearest comedy film or show . |
| 20 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |