Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 2 | Robyn , much to her own irritation , found herself doing as ordered . |
| 3 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 4 | But she recovered , composed herself and accepted , gladly , too , it would seem , much to my own satisfaction . |
| 5 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 6 | Gossels admits tensions rise because people resist change , especially to their own work . |
| 7 | After the Lateran Council all men over fifteen and women over twelve were to confess annually to their own priest ( permission was needed for confession to another ) and were to take communion each Easter . |
| 8 | ‘ The critic , I hold , should be loyal enough to his own impressions to confess to what is probably due to his own defects . |
| 9 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 10 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 11 | Therefore the only satisfaction which the ego can obtain in this way is to lower the tension between itself and whatever superego it has until it brings the ideal down to its own level , rather than aspiring to reach it . |
| 12 | ‘ Mine 's taken a bit of a bashing lately , ’ Robbie admitted as she sat down to her own ice-cream . |
| 13 | It was the talk of the trade that Ken would be outrageous there on certain afternoons of the week , telling about his great aunt and the Gates of Heaven Ajar or pulling one of his fellow actors down to his own idea of size . |
| 14 | He has kept five clean sheets in his last seven outings , a feat which is down to his own ability and the fact he ‘ now has a good understanding with the defenders in front of me ’ . |
| 15 | A major part of his success — besides making a good detector — can be put down to his own strength of character , and a deep and lasting commitment to the Christian ethic . |
| 16 | The flood of diverse human experience which it brings down to our own life and time is in no sense or degree foreign to us , but has become the native experience of men of our own race and culture . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the attitudes which Wordsworth adopted towards industrialization were successfully transmitted to the later nineteenth century , and ultimately down to our own day , where they have sometimes been incorporated into the law of the land . |
| 18 | Yet it , too , was a registration of the triumph of European culture ; down to our own day the political life of the world has increasingly been debated in the terms forged by European history and in a European idiom . |
| 19 | Three times as many people had been packed into the old confines as could prudently be housed there , even by the low standards of a hundred years ago , and the slums of Nottingham have remained a byword down to our own day . |
| 20 | Sarcasm and theoretical criticism of these in due course preyed on FitzRoy 's mind , and in 1865 he killed himself ; after an intermission , and despite ‘ scientific ’ criticism of the empiricism of it all , the weather forecasts were resumed , perhaps with slowly increasing accuracy down to our own day . |
| 21 | Accordingly , courses range over syntactic and phonological structure , and both temporal and spatial variation , embracing all the major stages of the language , from its Anglo-Saxon origins down to our own times . |
| 22 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 23 | This suggestion turned out to be greatly to my own detriment . |
| 24 | Before Terry came back , she went along to her own room and thankfully closed the door . |
| 25 | Turning away , he walked along to his own room . |
| 26 | " Now , run along to your own room . |
| 27 | Using local sources in this way the history teacher was able to relate the particular history topic to the pupils ' own locality and so to their own experience . |
| 28 | George took the law in to his own hands when he shot Lennie . |
| 29 | One way to see plenty of birds at close range is to attract them in to your own garden . |
| 30 | If the citizens of Sheffield needed to go to Walsall , I am sure that they would do so , but they need look only to their own trust to see the remarkable progress already made . |