Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 2 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 3 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 4 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 5 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 6 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 7 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 8 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 9 | They are therefore viewed as costs that can not be justifiably carried forward to future periods because they do not represent future benefits or the future benefits are so uncertain as to defy measurement . |
| 10 | Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West . |
| 11 | In the 18th and 19th centuries , they defended their great overseas empire against pirates , using ships large enough to carry up to 80 cannon . |
| 12 | If I can only think back to that precise moment , and recover all the necessary ambient data , I 'll be able to figure it out for myself . |
| 13 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 14 | All processes execute on the local client — not on the central host processor — and version control ensures the dictionary ( list of objects ) is only downloaded once to each client , on the first time of use . |
| 15 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 16 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 17 | musicians can only count up to four . |
| 18 | All you have to do is to be brave enough to stand up to those putting pressure on you or taking advantage of your desire to keep everyone happy . |
| 19 | Tess knew that her mother greatly looked forward to these trips to Rolliver 's . |
| 20 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 21 | Okay that 's , you 'd better hang on to that one and I 'll |
| 22 | While the rest of Wales quakes in anticipation of next week 's invasion by the world champions , Price is merely looking forward to another tussle with the ultimate rugby enemy . |
| 23 | A more important question , however , is whether portfolio matrices can be sensibly applied only to such conglomerates . |
| 24 | These tracks are also extendible and can be purchased in two diameters , 25mm ( 1in ) and 35mm ( 1 ⅜in ) and span up to 609cm ( 20ft ) although some of the narrower types only span up to 381 cm ( 12ft 6in ) . |
| 25 | ‘ We were so looking forward to this trip and it 's been awful , ’ Rose whispered , sadly shaking her head . |
| 26 | We can only collect up to 2 sacks each week from your house . |
| 27 | But when you first see it , it can be rather frightening , so hold on to small children 's hands . |
| 28 | And we 're only seeking up to one percent of development costs . |
| 29 | Erm so going back to this one , E to the minus nought point three . |
| 30 | Okay erm so going back to these we 've got day s say stay play pray . |