Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university . |
| 3 | Over the next few days Maggie slowly got closer to Ana de Santis . |
| 4 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 5 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 6 | The two mills were thus run in tandem by Marling and Co from 1883 to 1920 , when they eventually sold out to P.C. Evans and Sons Ltd . |
| 7 | Hearts0 St Mirren0 NOBODY anticipated a classic at Tynecastle and Hearts , needing to pick up both points to stay within sight of Premier Division leaders Rangers , and the doomed St Mirren duly lived up to expectations . |
| 8 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 9 | It 's a cute wheeze that arguably owes more to Flann O'Brien ( the rebellion of the fictional characters in At Swim-Two-Birds ) than to James Joyce 's other literary heir . |
| 10 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 11 | After slowly cooling down to 37°C a complete restriction was performed with Xba I ( 2 h , 5 U , Gibco BRL ) . |
| 12 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 13 | The wind rose in a rending sigh , filling the night with sound , and slowly sank again to quietness . |
| 14 | It is history now how he followed that perfectly shaped tee shot by greening a sumptuous 4-iron — only to lose out to Nick Faldo 's answering birdie as the Open champion holed a 15-footer on which the engines had cut out long before it dropped . |
| 15 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 16 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 17 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 18 | But the true figure is much higher , with one London health authority estimating that its hospitals alone lose up to £1 million a year . |
| 19 | A distinction must also be made between agroforestry and plantation forestry ; the former involves the integration of silviculture with agricultural systems while the latter is entirely given over to timber production . |
| 20 | that 's our home produce snakes and ladders it does n't go on too much , it only goes up to number thirty |
| 21 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 22 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 23 | The bomb was apparently addressed originally to Dirk Coetzee , a South African former police captain then living in Lusaka , Zambia . |
| 24 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 25 | Reports from Kampuchea claim that the country 's 35,000-man army is good enough to stand up to Khmer Rouge incursions . |
| 26 | Rival gangs , different sets , Bloods , and Crips , have all responded positively to Singleton 's film . |
| 27 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
| 28 | Liz Carruthers 's inventive direction makes full use of this exciting space , while also taking on board an eclectic mix of theatrical styles , notably miming and human sound effects of the Whose Line is it Anyway variety , entirely appropriate here to McKay 's comic style . |
| 29 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 30 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |