Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make the mix fairly dry and press it well down into the joints , filling them right to the top and finishing them flush . |
| 2 | Lower them slowly to the start position . |
| 3 | His master closed his book and invited me politely to the table . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone who may be able to lead me right to the heart of the operation , ’ he said softly . |
| 5 | Do n't take me right to the party , drop me off at Sam 's . |
| 6 | Functionally the nerve cells may be sensory ( afferent ) neurons , conveying impulses inwards from the sense organs ( p. 123 ff. ) , motor or efferent neurons , conveying them outwards to the effector organs , and association neurons ( interneurons ) that link the other two types . |
| 7 | But then there was a sound that sent me swiftly to the door . |
| 8 | Every clinic in the United Kingdom has to collect figures on the total attendance and the diagnoses and submit them quarterly to the Department of Health . |
| 9 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 10 | Two messengers take them to Paris and deliver them personally to the ambassador . ’ |
| 11 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 12 | We must apply ourselves right to the end of games . ’ |
| 13 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 14 | Lot was inspired by Ernst Dümmler 's Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches , to write not annals but a history of Charles 's reign : " But we have kept tightly within the frame of our subject : while M. Duemmler , under colour of writing the history of the East Frankish kingdom , has dealt almost as much with the history of Italy , of Lotharingia , of West Francia , we have devoted ourselves uniquely to the study of this last country , seen from a political point of view " . |
| 15 | About the fishes who swallow human sins , and carry them away to the ocean . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a good thing you do n't know any secrets — you 'd give them away to the milkman ! ’ ’ |
| 17 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 18 | He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine . |
| 19 | Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand , and you will have the use of the cart . |
| 20 | Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand , and you will have the use of the vessel . |
| 21 | Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand , and you will have the use of the room . |
| 22 | And this brings me finally to the link between circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 23 | The zoo-man at the turnstile 'd come rushing out and Vern 'd get scared and drag me away to the place where he 'd hidden my … |
| 24 | It was Freeth 's custom to write songs — setting his words to popular tunes — about remarkable events in local and national news , and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House . |
| 25 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 26 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 27 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 28 | ‘ I had n't heard about Doug but in a case of murder , nobody close to the victim gets overlooked . ’ |
| 29 | Emile Durkheim ( 1959–1917 ) addressed himself directly to the question of punishment to a much greater extent than either Marx or Weber ever did . |
| 30 | This surrender was legitimized only if the monarch devoted himself unsparingly to the good of the state and his subjects . |