Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grew morose after that and growled at the customers , it seems — so most took themselves to the next village for their ale . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said . |
| 3 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 4 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 5 | In a flash of inspiration , they replaced the oil with mashed bananas , which lubricated the engine just long enough to get them to civilisation . |
| 6 | Her mother so much wanted her to be doing something prestigious , Caro thought bitterly , something she could boast about to her woolshop cronies , after all that dreadful ‘ grubbing about in the park ’ . |
| 7 | For her sake , you will smile and pretend to be the sweet , charming young woman she so foolishly believes you to be . ’ |
| 8 | No , perhaps only enough to get her to Boston and a little on top . |
| 9 | You so obviously expected there to be a price to pay , I could n't resist — ’ |
| 10 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 11 | Andrew Jean on top , Cheeks squealing , So Long rocking her to a cataclysmax . |
| 12 | With that homely air of perplexed affection that had so long endeared her to Louisa 's heart , she gave voice to a remaining consideration . |
| 13 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
| 14 | So just flogging it to death |
| 15 | So just lead us to him , if you please ! " |
| 16 | He 's only just lent it to me to use during this week . |
| 17 | Bridget had only just beaten her to it . |
| 18 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 19 | But one can ask why Adorno did not investigate the origins of swing before so quickly assimilating it to the prevailing Tin Pan Alley dance-band style . |
| 20 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 21 | Pursuing this theory , we attributed to him some great and unhappy love , and then surmised that he had only ever confessed it to Madame , perhaps in the days of his terrible drunkenness . |
| 22 | She never came to take her membership quite for granted : she had admired the in-people for too long ever to feel herself to be truly one of them . |
| 23 | Just sit down ( I thought the idea was to dance — IM ) and listen to ‘ Yes Please ’ a few times until you realise that Shaun 's lyrics and the band 's music together still mean something to all their fans who follow a band purely for their music … so what were you doing talking to the stupid old Happy Mondays after all ? |
| 24 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 25 | Six local churches including Q.P. have so far committed themselves to the vision and are represented on the Mark 2 board . ) |
| 26 | By this time the manner of Cutter 's death was known throughout ie camp and somehow it appeared disconcertingly trivial for a man " ho had so often exposed himself to such great danger . |
| 27 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 28 | Our family were constant visitors , of course , and many friends — the same , dear kind people who had so readily transported me to the hospital for the nightly visiting . |
| 29 | It costs £74,000 to put the 348 GT on the road and nearly as much again to take it to Le Mans . |
| 30 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |