Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were all turning gently to port as I cut the corner and was slowly closing on the Hun . |
| 2 | She did not know Vanessa well enough to gauge whether she was one of those wives who deliberately peel their husbands away from former friends . |
| 3 | It is certainly true that UK banks have , in the past , tended to lend less to industry than their foreign counterparts . |
| 4 | Maria has to pretend not only to Glass that she no longer loves Leonard , but to Leonard too . |
| 5 | She had talked to him twice already about wanting to be sent away to school and he had looked at her sadly , saying , ‘ But you 're too young , Katherine . |
| 6 | And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same . |
| 7 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 8 | Pat Connolly was led away to incarceration and I was offered treatment for my facial injuries and an operation on my flattened nose . |
| 9 | The following day 's hill race once again developed into a Swanson/Dugdale battle , with Swanson finally pulling away to victory as they completed the race on the stadium track . |
| 10 | ‘ If we were in funds , I 'd never leave so soon to Christmas unless there was a disaster somewhere . |
| 11 | A pile was already to hand and he began folding the pamphlets and inserting them into the envelopes . |
| 12 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
| 13 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 14 | And all I know is he 's getting literally close to home and he works for you , if you include disabling your barmen in the conditions of employment , that is . ’ |
| 15 | The $24,000,000 production was to be an unmitigated disaster and was to bring Twentieth Century-Fox close to bankruptcy when it found out that the heyday of the film musical was past . |
| 16 | Get as close to subject as you can |
| 17 | The reason I have chosen these two books for a comparison is because I always prefer to read books that are either true or close to reality as they bring out more emotions in my reading and at leat I know my feelings towards certain situations in the books have been felt by someone before , whether it may be another reader or the character himself , but in more depth . |
| 18 | A SURGEON told yesterday how stabbed policewoman Leslie Harrison came close to death as his team battled to save her . |
| 19 | I work every day from 6.20 to 9.30 a.m. , he said , and then from 4 p.m. to midnight if I can . |
| 20 | Her surprise turned rapidly to wariness when she saw on his desk a number of daily papers , all with photographs of her and Ace in them . |
| 21 | Could we please NOT exchange presents this Christmas — has such dreadful expenses because of and I should prefer to give more to charity than I anyway do . |
| 22 | But there 's far more to garlic than its wonderful taste . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure the fans will take this defeat more to heart than me , but it 's only three points down the drain . |
| 24 | She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them . |
| 25 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 26 | ‘ I understand you 're going straight home to Mummy and I sha n't see you again until we meet in front of an altar … |
| 27 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 28 | Right so it 's going to be something like I mean this is n't anything like to scale but it 's going to be something like this perhaps . |
| 29 | He had graciously accepted an invitation to a drum at Lady Angela 's luxurious house in Belgravia , nodding affably to Lovat as he acknowledged the bows and curtsies of his future subjects . |
| 30 | Pickerage had gone straight to bed when he got back , and that day , Monday , had been something less than his dottily exuberant self . |