Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thing is , I was thinking of going to Prague myself , ’ she hung grimly on to her self-control to get started again . |
| 2 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 3 | Yet she did n't think she had imagined that , when her head had dropped wearily on to his shoulder , his arms had tightened about her . |
| 4 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 5 | Even those who slim right down to their goal weight will always find parts they wish were even slimmer ! |
| 6 | They had finally calmed down , smiled sheepishly — albeit damply — at one another , and Joanna had demanded the whole story , from Isabel 's meeting with Guy right down to their arrival at Ashby Chase . |
| 7 | ‘ He still cuts instinctively inside to his left . |
| 8 | Tension in the neck and shoulders can be eased by circling the shoulders up and around a few times backwards and forwards and by circling your head slowly down to your chest and then up so that your neck is stretched with your chin in the air . |
| 9 | I drove slowly down to my office . |
| 10 | Her smooth cream front became quite blotched with dampness because she made no effort to check her tears , just let them run down her face and drop wetly on to her bodice . |
| 11 | In the rest of this chapter we shall drop the assumption that prices are fully flexible and examine the implications of assuming that they are either fixed or at least move only slowly to their equilibrium values . |
| 12 | A few years ago he was pretty effective I 'll admit , but that was almost entirely down to his pace , which he seems to have completely lost since his lengthy ‘ injury ’ . |
| 13 | Compared with the Fontenay Trio ( Teldec ) , they are richer and more responsive to the music 's latent unease , less so to its elegance . |
| 14 | And especially not to my aunt . ’ |
| 15 | Despite the difficulties Frere was committed to his new life and regretted only that enthusiasm came less easily to his wife . |
| 16 | You must be absolutely and totally out of your tiny mind ! she told herself fiercely , ashamed that , despite the apparent sophistication of her twenty-five years , she should have succumbed so quickly to his dark , fatal attraction . |
| 17 | Increasing your bargaining power is not an end in itself but usually arises because you can not move sufficiently close to your opponent 's position to gain a settlement . |
| 18 | Here things were much more to his taste . |
| 19 | I thank my right hon. Friend for responding so promptly to my request that either his good self or my hon. Friend the Minister for Corporate Affairs should visit Nottingham . |
| 20 | She was startled by his deep Irish brogue , so close to her ear . |
| 21 | I am not amused to see him so close to my sister . ’ |
| 22 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 23 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 24 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 25 | ‘ You give in ? ’ he murmured , his lips tantalisingly close to her face . |
| 26 | It was breathed tauntingly close to her mouth . |
| 27 | Walking thoughtfully up to her room , she sat on the bed . |
| 28 | As his eyes drifted pointedly downwards to her bosom , Shiona saw his free hand reach out towards her . |
| 29 | It can be a planning tool for the library management , a statement of purpose for the board or governing body , and a source of information for library users — though on the last point some libraries may find it politic not to make known priorities so openly to their public . |
| 30 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |