Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 2 | Tending to follow market values , heriots might form realistic death duties , but other seigneurial perquisites , such as profits of the court , rarely added much to the total income . |
| 3 | This pipe , called the discharge pipe , soil pipe or soil stack , runs vertically down to connect directly to the drains ; the top of it is open to the air at least 900mm above the top of any opening windows which are within 3m of the stack , unless a relief valve is fitted to the top of the stack ( see drawing ) . |
| 4 | Until now the commanders had all reported upward to the Shah , who himself made all decisions . |
| 5 | He was particularly careful of any involvement with the Mamur Zapt , which was why Owen not only reported formally to the Khedive but was nominally subordinate to Garvin . |
| 6 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 7 | ‘ But he so looks forward to the Bois . |
| 8 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 9 | Such a shame really , since I was so looking forward to the day . |
| 10 | ‘ You see , I was so looking forward to the prince 's return from Ludlow . ’ |
| 11 | The Aged was obviously looking forward to the evening ceremony of firing the gun . |
| 12 | I 'm real excited , as you can imagine , and greatly looking forward to the adventure . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I am greatly looking forward to the challenge . ’ |
| 14 | In the late 1960s and early 1970s the activities of the CNAA were obviously related closely to the complex developments of the polytechnics . |
| 15 | All students should be encouraged to take an active part and not merely listen passively to the tutor and one or two loquacious individuals . |
| 16 | In addition , they can perhaps bring home to the community just how much education needs and deserves better funding . |
| 17 | Even though they had all agreed beforehand to the principle of a supranational institution , the six states of ‘ little ’ Europe — France , West Germany , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg — faced nine months of hard bargaining after they formally began negotiations in June 1950 . |
| 18 | So your students will relate to their coursebook and will eagerly look forward to the next activity ! |
| 19 | The gangway lamps seemed to give no light , only add further to the gloom of the dusk . |
| 20 | ‘ Had been suddenly called away to the funeral of a close relative ? |
| 21 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 22 | These variables are only known locally to the defining procedure or function . |
| 23 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , the more the middle class increased and flourished , diverting resources towards its own housing , offices , the department stores which were so characteristic a development of the era , and its prestige buildings , the less went relatively to the working-class quarters , except in the most general form of social expenditure streets , sanitation , lighting and public utilities . |
| 25 | If hon. Members who are called before 7 o'clock keep broadly to the time limit , it may be possible , in the interests of the whole House , for the occupant of the Chair to relax that limit later in the debate . |
| 26 | So go straight to the answer |
| 27 | She told her parents how she and Susan had bumped into the two lads from Northallerton and that they 'd all gone together to the Lobster Pot for a drink . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ said his father , ‘ I think we 'd better go home to the cave . |
| 29 | The photographer 's glance alights on small details of foliage or suddenly sweeps upwards to the open sky . |
| 30 | Not all of these approaches are necessarily directed solely to the cities , and some would not feature in many classifications of inner-urban policy . |