Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman of taste and energy , Mrs Baer goes right to the source — provincial villages in France — for her fine curtains , natural linens and variations on the theme of blue ( or beige or grey ) and white stripes so sought after by decorators . |
| 2 | Goes right to the spot . |
| 3 | Teaching often involves looking in detail at particular passages , in the hope that the part will relate coherently to the whole , but the doctrine of the hermeneutic circle reminds us that we can not understand the parts until we understand the whole ( and vice versa ) . |
| 4 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 5 | He said well you 've got to stay to the end I mean , but do n't stay right to the end , you know sort of |
| 6 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 7 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 8 | Fall down , go right and collect the painting , use the painted ledges and stars from the cauldron to get back to the start , go left and climb up the stairs from the cauldron , go right and bounce up to the platform to your right , go to the right of the cloud and paint some ledges to get into the castle , stand on the wall to your right and paint some ledges to go right to the edge of the castle , go up and collect the piece of painting , go down , then up the left side of the window using the painted ledges . |
| 9 | On the other hand , from a different vantage point they might have seen the body without having to go right to the edge . |
| 10 | And so , er , when th the reapers were gathering in the harvest they were not allowed to go right to the edge of the field , they had to leave a border , they were not to go right into the corners , they were to leave those areas , so that the poorer members , so that those who did not have could come and could gather what was left behind . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to go right to the top , ’ said Paul , who sings under the name Paul James . |
| 12 | Cos we had to repack it you see because it was going to take a it was going to take probably not it was going to go right to the end with this lot on . |
| 13 | Bring slowly to the boil , whisking constantly , and cook for two minutes . |
| 14 | 2 Transfer fruit and liquid to a large pan , add the peel and spices and bring slowly to the boil . |
| 15 | Add the sugar and bring slowly to the boil . |
| 16 | Put the ingredients in a saucepan and bring slowly to the boil . |
| 17 | Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time . |
| 18 | Bring slowly to the boil , stirring until thick . |
| 19 | Put the milk in a small pan and bring slowly to the boil , then pour over the egg mixture , stirring thoroughly with a wooden spoon . |
| 20 | Well you probably lose a bit , it 's not sticking properly to the wall . |
| 21 | A few weeks later the boy complained of a further assault ; the tailor was again convicted and once more fined £5 , but on this occasion the clerk to the Board applied successfully to the magistrates for the boy to be discharged from his indentures . |
| 22 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 23 | These strips would allow mowing right to the edge of the lawn and would also allow the edge to be trimmed with edging shears . |
| 24 | Boler 's case grinds wearily to the Court of Appeal . |
| 25 | The river itself clung longest to the light , shining opaline blue between gloomy banks . |
| 26 | These three correspond most to the expectations and hopes previously voiced by bishops and theological faculties . |
| 27 | Our present understanding of the relationship between ΔC p and the hydrophobic effect [ 17 , 18 ] , leads us to conclude that the latter contributes little to the formation of the single strand helix , and consequently , that water molecules may not be appreciably ordered around the faces of the bases prior to stacking . |
| 28 | During the 1960s and 1970s interest in the language of Caribbeans in British schools led eventually to the publication of specialised teaching materials and the implementation of policies in the light of two Commissions of Inquiry ( Bullock 1975 ; Rampton 1981 ) . |
| 29 | That is exactly what Jesus did by becoming man , travelling the road which led eventually to the cross . |
| 30 | But the great popularity of that sort of book in the 1920s and 1930s had another effect besides producing the series of direct variants that led eventually to the crime novel . |