Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked dismal enough when I saw it , as if given right over to darkness . |
| 2 | But it will survive right up to polling day — and , if Labour wins , far beyond . |
| 3 | We would cram into the homely little Wesleyan building — and those fervent , melodic sankeys would waft challengingly out to sea . |
| 4 | ‘ He was blue in the face and appeared to have collapsed , but the vessel had carried on out to sea . |
| 5 | Hobson Brown , in Russell Reynolds ' New York office , maintains that his firm , more effectively than the other headhunters , has attracted the first real career-search consultants , graduates from business schools who have deliberately chosen to make a career in executive search ; it was always the goal of Reynolds himself to build up a business as prestigious and high-powered as Morgan Guaranty , in which an ambitious graduate would seek to work right through to retirement . |
| 6 | just after the third stile , path goes over footbridge and drops down on to shore , where turn left . |
| 7 | SHe lay back , pulling Tammuz' head down on to hir breast , where he closed his eyes in a relief that was , strangely , both enervating and exhilarating . |
| 8 | Christina struck out across the aquamarine water and swam quickly out to sea . |
| 9 | Here he was surprised and a little frightened to find that he was being carried further out to sea . |
| 10 | ‘ Your book ? ’ she enquired , doubtfully , angry with herself for allowing domesticity to prevent her from keeping more up to date with the literary news . |
| 11 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 12 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |
| 13 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But sooner or later one has to come back down to earth , ’ she went on . |
| 15 | Suddenly she was catapulted violently back to consciousness by rough hands on her shoulder , shaking her into unwilling life . |
| 16 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 17 | The trade winds weaken , the waters off the Ecuadorian coast are not pushed relentlessly out to sea , there is no consequent need for any replenishment . |
| 18 | She tried to tug her foot free , but he held it easily , his strong , capable fingers massaging her frozen toes , making her groan as they came slowly back to life . |
| 19 | Her sweet words were still echoing in his ears as he came slowly back to reality . |
| 20 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 21 | Then he and Ranulf trudged wearily off to bed . |
| 22 | And I reckon they 'll carry on down to Christmas . |
| 23 | The sun , incandescent orange , dropped slowly on to pier 56 and made the buttes of mid-town Manhattan shine like fool 's gold . |
| 24 | The incredible power was channelled harmlessly down to earth . |
| 25 | On an impulse he reversed the Jaguar and drove quickly back to Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 26 | In residential environments where boundary enforcement is strong , adolescents may be tempted into boundary-transgressing behaviour which may well generalise later on to drug/alcohol seeking behaviour . |
| 27 | I mean , if I 'd have been , If I 'd have know I could of coming back down cos Bill came back down to work Tuesday |
| 28 | Abingdon United came back down to earth with a bang this afternoon when they were defeated at home by three goals to nil by lowly Rayners Lane . |
| 29 | These values and this separation of course react back on to design practice itself ; after all practice models itself on conceptions of what , theoretically , it is . |
| 30 | Adam put the book back and stepped away from the counter as the fat receptionist came out in to reception . |