Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah collected some mugs from a cupboard and set them down close to the coffee maker ; she looked impatiently at the level of coffee in the jug , as if the slowness of the process was a familiar annoyance . |
| 2 | Before long Bill Clinton , who is keen on grand visions , may rediscover these ideas and start trying to apply them once more to the global economy . |
| 3 | Only cos I took you down there to the cafeteria . |
| 4 | To help you get a lot more information straight from the horse 's mouth ( and nose , and ears , and tail ) , Lucy Rees breaks you in gently to the basics of equine body language . |
| 5 | There 's a meeting on and the chairman has asked me to get you up here to the boardroom . ’ |
| 6 | It filled her , lifted her spirits , and she remembered Ernest 's words , and said them out loud to the little girl beside her . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , my brother Stair — I am sure that Matey has told you about Stair — invited me out tonight to the stag party of one of his friends ; I used to know him slightly . |
| 8 | Gould was with the one man who could introduce him most convincingly to the alliances between geography and the native flora and fauna of the continent . |
| 9 | In this sense it was Maxse 's radical Conservatism and not his more dangerous notions that brought him so close to the hub of Conservative politics in the decade before 1914 . |
| 10 | Similarly , his views on architecture , education and social issues have brought him much closer to the man in the street than any of his relatives . |
| 11 | His expedition took him ever onward to the cold colonies of the northern New World . |
| 12 | But it seemed Ace had n't finished with her yet , and soon she was incapable of any thought at all , rational or otherwise , as he took her once more to the edge of paradise . |
| 13 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 14 | Each one led her back inwards to the balcony . |
| 15 | I then took her forward slightly to the evening after the operation , a time when she was fully awake and over the more drastic effects of the anaesthetic . |
| 16 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 17 | I put it down partly to the cameras . ’ |
| 18 | The tow pilot can help by allowing his aircraft to climb away , gaining speed rather than holding it down close to the ground . |
| 19 | I drained one of the small glasses and set it down close to the wall on the floor . |
| 20 | He had learnt about it much closer to the time of the murder . |
| 21 | Because most F.L. teachers have been concerned in their own learning almost exclusively with written language , it is necessary to treat this topic separately and relate it not only to the foreign language but also to the mother tongue . |
| 22 | We owe it not only to the people of Oxford but to those of Birmingham , Cardiff , Elswick , and even of rural Shropshire who have suffered . |
| 23 | He forced it close enough to the edge to allow the Toyota to creep past on the inside . |
| 24 | Despite this she would persist in offering her face for respectful attention , interposing it between people deep in conversation and turning it up appealingly to the person serving rice-and-bean salad or pouring sangría . |
| 25 | Certainly this order on financial services , helps because it makes absolutely clear that if an auditor sees malpractice and potential fraud he has an obligation and a duty to report it straight away to the regul regulator , but that will help the process . |
| 26 | Fifty four of the people here think they 're going to need care , forty six are going to stride it out independently to the end . |
| 27 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 28 | If used for entertaining , it 's a good idea to locate it as close to the house as possible . |
| 29 | This reconstituted his image and then sent it back again to the exhibition at London 's Barbican Centre . |
| 30 | Do n't pass it back again to the left — or if you do you 'll strip off the ribber stitches . ) |