Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 2 | It 's easy to sway the emotions by showing monkeys with their brains cut open , genetically stunted pigs or smoking beagles , less so to drag on someone suffering from a vile disease and say ‘ this person will die unless we keep on chopping up small furry creatures . ’ |
| 3 | She heard nothing of the gossip exchanged at the laundry that morning , and answered only absently to pieces of news she was given . |
| 4 | Trent ( Triento in northern Italy ) was within the imperial territory , but sufficiently close to Rome for the papacy to influence events . |
| 5 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 6 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 7 | And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland . |
| 8 | RIGA ( Reuter ) — Latvia 's mass Popular Front movement yesterday approved an ambitious plan for independent statehood in the biggest challenge so far to Moscow from the restive Baltic republics . |
| 9 | she 's old enough now to sort of have thought it out really , is n't she ? |
| 10 | The two machines , one for Britain and one for France , were handed over and it was to be Bertrand 's responsibility to transport one to Paris and so on to London in the French diplomatic bag . |
| 11 | Much closer to home for me , we listened to the hon. Member for Oxford , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who represents and lives in the Blackbird Leys part of Oxford . |
| 12 | BR indeed continued to change the country 's very geography , Gatwick suddenly becoming much closer to London with its Express every fifteen minutes , places like Peterborough and Swindon now almost as accessible as suburbs only fifteen miles away from Piccadilly . |
| 13 | A second station , built in 1855 for the long defunct Stamford and Essendine Railway , was even more elaborately Tudor and indeed much closer to Burghley in its detailing . |
| 14 | The database is open only to members of APIL . |
| 15 | This is open only to residents on the campsite or for people eating there . |
| 16 | These offers are open only to readers in the UK until 23 November 1992 . |
| 17 | Which basically I mean she 's had so she thought it would be nice for her to get away just to sort of sa you know have a breather from it all . |
| 18 | There is a long way to go as only 350 tonnes were collected during 1990 — but plans are already underway to gear up collection across the country . |
| 19 | Lost hours of work , and lower rates of pay from missed experience , contribute approximately equally to loss of income ( Joshi 1987a ) . |
| 20 | She should never have let him slip away silently to Pool in the first place , but clung fast to him there among the trees and called out the men to overpower him . |
| 21 | In the remainder of this book , I shall be addressing myself far more intensively to questions of the nature of language itself . |
| 22 | ‘ To produce in-service training materials which will help teachers respond more effectively to problems of disruption in schools . ’ |
| 23 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 24 | New research shows that if penicillin is given early enough to patients with the deadly bacterial form of the disease , they have a much better chance of survival . |
| 25 | The civil law applies directly only to Israel as a nation and can not be lifted out of its context , though many of the principles it embodies are still highly relevant to modern society . |
| 26 | All he knew was that the Eckleys were lending the Brownings their best carriage so they might travel the more comfortably to Rome for the winter . |
| 27 | RBL hopes to be able to respond more imaginatively to changes in attitudes towards authority . |
| 28 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 29 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |
| 30 | This is because capital flows tend to respond more rapidly to changes in relative interest rates than trade flows tend to respond to changes in relative prices . |