Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those who slim right down to their goal weight will always find parts they wish were even slimmer ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So the spring flowers which bloom at the same time each year , and the swifts and swallows which return so precisely to their nest sites , are clearly responding to a more dependable guide . |
| 6 | An attempt was made in Parliament to restrict the power to intercept for security reasons to cases where this was necessary for the defence of the realm or to prevent subversion , terrorism , or espionage — still wider than the guidelines but much closer to their spirit than the statute . |
| 7 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 8 | This shrub bed was a full sixty yards from where they now stood , but just over half that distance from the treeline away over to their left . |
| 9 | Others were clearly no longer up to their profession . |
| 10 | Primary school teachers contribute most directly to their school reports , find the LEA guidelines for writing the report most useful and think their reports most judgmental , secondary teachers again least on all these items . |
| 11 | Thus presenting a most romantic picture as they were driven smartly away to their wedding-breakfast amid a flurry of good wishes and a merry ringing of bells . |
| 12 | The objection made to such settlements was more usually to their artificiality . |
| 13 | After a period under the Domenicans , the Poor Clares returned once more to their convent but the buildings then suffered from the fire in the Old Town in 1689 . |
| 14 | With machinery being used more and more on the farms , the village has seen the number of people employed on the land drastically fall , and is now one of many with commuters travelling further afield to their place of employment . |
| 15 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 16 | only had sixty odd quid , used his credit card to put it through , well now it all comes up , all the stuff comes up onto on display now about the credit , it goes straight through to their account see if there 's money there |
| 17 | Paula and Sally took her straight up to their bedroom . |
| 18 | The tone of his detractors is modified , however , by those who fear that without Birt the right wing of the Conservative party would bring in a regime even less to their taste . |
| 19 | In the same way , the old horsemen believed that the milt and the frog 's or toad 's bone contributed almost wholly to their skill in drawing or jading their horses . |
| 20 | I I would not go out there on to their property without letting them have knowledge that I was coming to their property . |
| 21 | was quite ready and anxious to permit their drawings for these cars to be used in order to ensure that the design would be at least up to their standard and no doubt both Hurst , Nelson and Brush held sets of copies of these drawings . |
| 22 | Florence publishers have turned their attention almost exclusively to their home territory . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the definition of a ‘ manager ’ comes rather closer to their task . |
| 24 | The men on the shore cheered , shaking their swords and their spears , and the men on board the two leading ships cheered as well , as the seamen leaned forward , swinging the seventeen-foot oars for the stroke that would lift the prows safely home to their beaching . |
| 25 | Parking is a major problem , often because vehicles are parked too close to their vehicle . |
| 26 | Again , you should fix the pieces very firmly to their card backing with a rubber solution adhesive , to stop them moving about or even falling off . |
| 27 | They do n't actually get abroad a lot , in theory , although they do n't always stick too closely to their brief . |