Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only saying as much to Calder when he called yesterday . ’ |
| 2 | Bowlby 's report was abridged and published as a paperback ( 1953 ) , thus becoming widely available to the lay public ; in the year of publication and the five years following , more than seventy-five thousand copies were sold , and nearly as many in the next five years : an exceptional sale in Britain for a book not intended as a baby book for parents . |
| 3 | But for the moment I 'm just looking perhaps nearer to the Vienna settlement itself . |
| 4 | Fire-drill was followed immediately by breakfast in the dining-hall and everyone was surprised to see Ethel deliberately sitting down next to Mildred , for it was common knowledge that the two were not on the best of terms . |
| 5 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
| 6 | They often went on excursions , always talking away nineteen to the dozen . |
| 7 | She is still working as Assistant to the President of Delaware North Companies International Ltd. with her responsibilities recently enlarged to include personnel and legal matters in their Asian subsidiaries . |
| 8 | Clearly living so near to the home of Julian Cope has affected your judgement , Jase . |
| 9 | I have stuck with Esquire longer than I have stuck with any other men 's magazine and I feel that the magazine is now getting very close to achieving the ideal balance of content and format . |
| 10 | This is the way life is for thousands of working women living with elderly relatives , running a home that the parent is no longer able to manage , as well as giving her care and emotional support , and often feeling too exhausted to be able to organise any reasonable social lives for themselves . |
| 11 | In elections for the Gaza Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 4 nationalists who backed the Madrid conference won 13 of the 16 seats , unexpectedly leaving only three to Islamic groups who had rejected the conference . |
| 12 | Some very sailing very close to the wind . |
| 13 | This was certainly another woman , and they were certainly sitting very close to each other . |