Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning from the ugly sight of the old woman 's contorted features , she fled the room , running incontinently down the gallery to the stairs , unaware that Hector , barking excitedly , ran out after her . |
| 2 | I put my gown on , taking as long as I could , and walked slowly down the passage to Nonni 's room . |
| 3 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 4 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 5 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 6 | I went swiftly down the hall to the front door , and eased its bolts open . |
| 7 | Genscher 's remarks about ‘ one German nation ’ may send shivers down some people 's spines , but what is objectionable is not so much the reference to the German nation but the implied moral equivalence between East and West Germany . |
| 8 | Heterosexuality among English writers , it was being implied , was so much the exception to the rule as to demand special treatment . |
| 9 | He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . |
| 10 | So hopefully the trip to England wo n't just be a holiday , it will be the beginning of a new life . |
| 11 | Just as the causes of family failure are many and varied , so too the approach to family welfare must be on a wide front . |
| 12 | There was steady light drizzle and virtually no wind but the ebb carried them comfortably down the channel to the first turn in front of the clubhouse , after which the doldrums set in . |
| 13 | ( iii ) Pupils should consider not only the extent to which English has changed since Shakespeare 's day but also some of the ways in which it is changing now . |
| 14 | In the process it will be necessary to examine not only the extent to which geographic issues feature on the policy issues agenda in these fields but also the institutional context which governs decision-making and the extent to which data are available for research and policy analysis purposes . |
| 15 | The generation before the Revolution saw not only the opposition to royal power offered by the parlements and their allies but a growth in criticism of the monarchical regime of a more fundamental and ultimately more dangerous kind . |
| 16 | Change in rural transport is not only the key to many of the changes outlined in Chapters 4 and 5 , but it is also a central connecting factor linking service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 17 | Green candidate , Bill Hughes sees investment in more public transport as not only the key to an improved environment , but also to an improved economy . |
| 18 | The Royal Commission publishes an Annual Review of its work ( with maps and photographs ) and this is a worthwhile document to seek out , for it gives not only the background to the work undertaken but keeps the publications record up-to-date . |
| 19 | A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character . |
| 20 | Wearing his scarlet flannel pad , he rolled majestically down the chute to the quay and everybody laughed and cheered . |
| 21 | Writing the play brought back a whole period of his early life : not merely the marriage to Vivien but the friendship with Emily Hale . |
| 22 | He 's just not the man to be chief of the Macleans . |
| 23 | No , Peru 's just not the place to be at the moment . ’ |
| 24 | Well , this is better than nothing , but you must remember , it is not just the length to the armhole because this must match with width of the sleeve head . |
| 25 | Teachers ' leaders have expressed concern in the past at the risks to which teachers are exposing themselves if things go wrong , not just the risk to life and limb , but in terms of the extent of their legal responsibility for doing work which is outwith paid requirements . |
| 26 | It is not just the disruption to my life , but it is also the waste to the hospital . ’ |
| 27 | Erm but erm I I merely pose it as as an indication that erm it is possible for local authorities to erm not open the door to development , speculative development , er if they do not wish to do so erm because it does not ride override existing structure plan policies . |
| 28 | It would appear therefore that recruiting more volunteers is not always the answer to staff shortages . |
| 29 | Not really the answer to the question but it 's the best I can do . |
| 30 | ‘ In some ways I 'm not really the guy to be asking about all this , because Quo have such a one-off sound . |