Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March he was out again , and back at his office in Faber and Faber , although he was prudent enough to retire to bed early in the evening : with a complaint which had no organic cause , he could not be certain that he had been cured " . |
| 2 | A YOUNG mum was brutally knifed to death just moments after taking her five year-old daughter to school yesterday . |
| 3 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 4 | So going to school tomorrow ? |
| 5 | So going to school tomorrow ? |
| 6 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
| 7 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 8 | The pre-eminence apparently accorded to Christianity here may reflect the position in the country as a whole ; but it is easy to see how some religious groups would identify an implicit suggestion by the section that the other religious traditions in Great Britain are less important . |
| 9 | As he speaks , the line suddenly comes to life again , and flashes over to the starboard side , and then cuts in front of the boat . |
| 10 | She normally goes to bed about half past seven . |
| 11 | Crashing the car , taking someone else 's life with them , terrible situations , terrible tragedies can come about because a person physically goes to sleep so it can be in a spiritual sense that we can nod off to sleep and not only our lives are involved , but our fellow brothers ' and sisters ' too , |
| 12 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 13 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 15 | Her old candlewick cotton dressing-gown had finally shrunk to uselessness just before her parents went away . |
| 16 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 17 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |
| 18 | ‘ I just do n't want ever to go to church again . ’ |
| 19 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 20 | I did n't used to like going to college once a week . |
| 21 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 22 | That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation . |
| 23 | ‘ I wo n't ever go to church again . |
| 24 | She still went to church occasionally , she loved the singing , and in spite of her husband 's example , she still told me ‘ Not to take the Lord 's name in vain . ’ |
| 25 | It appears that they can delay their body clock with ease but they can not advance it , so that if they ever go to bed late then they are stuck with a body clock ( and bed-time ) that tends to become ever more delayed . |
| 26 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 27 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 28 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |
| 29 | I also like to session really stupid things . |
| 30 | He and Lewis are also set to work together again this year in California , in which he plays a serial killer . |