Example sentences of "[adv] to [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ecgfrith had sent a raiding party to Meath in 684 despite the exhortation not to of the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , who was residing among the Irish ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 3 | Whatever you 're up to during the snowy season , a wonderful warm woolly makes the perfect winter wear . |
| 4 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
| 5 | Which shows how little she knows about what I get up to in the small hours . |
| 6 | If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ? |
| 7 | No tales about defectors and what the Brits got up to in the Cold War . |
| 8 | How fast can you get up to in the green machine ? |
| 9 | Three living dolphin groups have a record that extends back to about the late Miocene period some 11 million years ago . |
| 10 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 11 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 12 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 13 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 14 | ‘ I stayed up all night to cheer him on to in the presidential election . |
| 15 | It was the form twos , the only thing that I , that they had to , they had to look forward to in the whole time they were there . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you know how many firms of bloody architects I 've traipsed round to in the past two months ? |
| 17 | The indices examined all improved significantly to within the normal range after one year on diet . |