Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 2 | She held on grimly to her temper . |
| 3 | ‘ He still cuts instinctively inside to his left . |
| 4 | In the rest of this chapter we shall drop the assumption that prices are fully flexible and examine the implications of assuming that they are either fixed or at least move only slowly to their equilibrium values . |
| 5 | Compared with the Fontenay Trio ( Teldec ) , they are richer and more responsive to the music 's latent unease , less so to its elegance . |
| 6 | Despite the difficulties Frere was committed to his new life and regretted only that enthusiasm came less easily to his wife . |
| 7 | You must be absolutely and totally out of your tiny mind ! she told herself fiercely , ashamed that , despite the apparent sophistication of her twenty-five years , she should have succumbed so quickly to his dark , fatal attraction . |
| 8 | Ali bent down close to his ear and whispered : ‘ You in pain ? ’ |
| 9 | Increasing your bargaining power is not an end in itself but usually arises because you can not move sufficiently close to your opponent 's position to gain a settlement . |
| 10 | Here things were much more to his taste . |
| 11 | Sit on the floor with one leg outstretched and the other bent at the knee and tucked in close to your thigh . |
| 12 | I thank my right hon. Friend for responding so promptly to my request that either his good self or my hon. Friend the Minister for Corporate Affairs should visit Nottingham . |
| 13 | She was startled by his deep Irish brogue , so close to her ear . |
| 14 | I am not amused to see him so close to my sister . ’ |
| 15 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 16 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 17 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 18 | ‘ You give in ? ’ he murmured , his lips tantalisingly close to her face . |
| 19 | It was breathed tauntingly close to her mouth . |
| 20 | As his eyes drifted pointedly downwards to her bosom , Shiona saw his free hand reach out towards her . |
| 21 | It can be a planning tool for the library management , a statement of purpose for the board or governing body , and a source of information for library users — though on the last point some libraries may find it politic not to make known priorities so openly to their public . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , BSDI 's only reaction so far to our story last week is to claim Bill Jolitz was a founder of BSDI . |
| 23 | So which brings along now to our final and most important general item which is reconsideration of proposals . . |
| 24 | Catherine behaved so sweetly to her husband in the next few days that Thrushcross Grange seemed full of sunshine , and in spite of his doubts , Mr Edgar allowed Heathcliff to visit her regularly . |
| 25 | But if you read that rather strange , moving document , you will see very well what I mean , when I refer to Russell 's emotional difficulty in accepting what commended itself so strongly to his intellect , a purely naturalistic , scientific account of what things are . |
| 26 | So the spring flowers which bloom at the same time each year , and the swifts and swallows which return so precisely to their nest sites , are clearly responding to a more dependable guide . |
| 27 | Only then to my embarrassment did Alf tell him of our predicament . |
| 28 | One of the boys said later there had only been a tin of cat food and a bus pass and an old purse with a pound and a key in it anyway , and that they would n't have had to hit her if she had n't clung so hard to her handbag . |
| 29 | Blackberry Hill curled down then to my right and up again . |
| 30 | Garry pushed his glasses higher on his nose and raising his hand as if he was starting a race , brought it down heavily to his side … |