Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Mr. Collins ( if I have understood him correctly ) has expressly limited his challenge to Lautro 's failure to allow the making of representations before the service of the intervention notice . |
| 2 | ‘ Not if I had to face a helicopter journey every time I wanted to come into town , ’ he drawled , and then slowly lowered his gaze to her red mouth , murmuring , ‘ So … do you want to see the bedrooms ? ’ |
| 3 | Alain asked quietly as they slowly made their way to the car later . |
| 4 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 5 | Lisboa went on to become the leading soccer club of the day and eventually changed its name to Benfica , the club renowned today in world soccer . |
| 6 | The allocation to L Detachment of specialists taken from Special Service units would greatly increase the scope of the units ' training and thereby augment its value to men who inevitably gain versatility and resourcefulness . |
| 7 | However , on Jan. 7 Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin declared that what he called the " budget war " was not over , and that although his republic had agreed effectively to increase its contribution to Rbs78,000 million by funding specific all-union programmes , the central government was still demanding an additional Rbs27,000 million . |
| 8 | She eventually found her way to the social services department . |
| 9 | The Home Secretary deftly referred their claims to the expert , and non-political , Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders . |
| 10 | Vast amounts of money were made through Cornish tin but very little found its way to the tinners themselves . |
| 11 | They eventually narrowed their focus to three subjects : submerged aquatic vegetation , such toxic substances as chemicals and herbicides , and the bay 's ever-fluctuating supply of nutrients , nitrogen and phosphorus in particular . |
| 12 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 13 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 14 | GRANVILLE AGAIN , travelling well when falling two out in last month 's Champion Hurdle , stylishly underlined his credentials to be considered a most unlucky loser that day when taking yesterday 's Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr . |
| 15 | Molly had secretly enjoyed her initiation to sex on the night of Yanto 's near drowning , but then she had had to curtail her natural emotions for fear of waking her Father . |
| 16 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 17 | Greek or Trojan ancestors were quite enough to support their claims to power . |
| 18 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 19 | To avoid doing so , devious messages are often sent , perhaps attributing their feelings to mysterious ‘ theys ’ or ‘ others ’ . |
| 20 | Preventing dental and gum disease will not only make your visits to the dentist more pleasant , but will mean that your mouth feels fresher and you can have a bright smile . |
| 21 | Besides , he would only make it grist to his mill . |
| 22 | We grabbed the ‘ speeder from the motor park and amazingly enough got ourselves passage to the Festival on a grain hopper . ’ |
| 23 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 24 | As one top London restaurant chef said , ‘ you have to stick rigidly to the basics of hygiene and constantly motivate your staff to the highest standard . |
| 25 | This is particularly true of Gertrude who only wants her son to be happy , but her cheerfulness and pleadings with Hamlet only make the situation worse . |
| 26 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 27 | But suppose that he proceeds in the general direction from where he assumed by voice came and suddenly found himself face to face with a stranger who looked very similar to myself . |
| 28 | Either way , the chances are that there will be a very large number of people , possibly several million , depending on the subject of the research , and there is no way that the researcher is going to be able to deliver a questionnaire to them all , still less interview them face to face . |
| 29 | General Motors has two dealers in Britain — in Kingston and Manchester — and if you want a Syclone they will only lighten your wallet to the tune of £20,000 . |
| 30 | He was single-mindedly applying his mind to the task and it was likely that he would forget the time . |