Example sentences of "[adv] to [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week Mr Cojuangco came close to getting back on the board of San Miguel , the country 's largest firm , which he once controlled . |
| 2 | The idea was to record and tour with the band , but Knopfler saw an essentially fun project with his mates develop into something which came close to getting out of hand . |
| 3 | Equally predictably , given the third party payment problem , the cost of those publicly funded has come close to running out of control . |
| 4 | Following the experience of the war , when Britain came close to running out of food , farmers were entreated by successive governments to increase production . |
| 5 | While not explicitly using this argument , Rawls comes close to doing so in saying that |
| 6 | Even if only half these elderly people find that the withdrawal of tax relief makes private medical insurance too expensive for them and , consequently , revert once more to relying solely on the NHS for treatment , the cost to the nation of providing this care would be approximately £136 million . |
| 7 | Can we move now to summing up by North Yorkshire ? |
| 8 | It 's large a low level route , sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells . |
| 9 | you know , I think I mean , I mean he even to going back to college doing a couple of A levels would n't alter his benefit . |
| 10 | Jack Ashley 's Bill would have come far closer to doing so by requiring that belief in consent must be reasonable . |
| 11 | I hope this may be of some use , and look forward to reading more on the subject in future editions . |
| 12 | I much look forward to learning more about the Association and all your work . |
| 13 | I think that the church has the responsibility to continue to find new and innovative ways of reaching out and doing a better job and that is er testimony to the fact that we can continue to reach out to persons who are suffering in many ways , and I would appreciate and look forward to learning better from you how to do that and would be happy to share . |
| 14 | There was a war on , so you did n't question anything ; and if she was completely honest , there had even been times when she had looked forward to leaving home with a kind of guilty relief . |
| 15 | We are disappointed too , on your behalf , but at least the Hertford offer sounds very interesting , & we shall look forward to hearing more about it . |
| 16 | Mr Nicos , the manager of the Kamara , will be welcoming Club guests for the sixth summer running when he opens his doors in Summer '90 and once again he is looking forward to dealing exclusively with us . |
| 17 | Buyers Barbara and Tom Mason are looking forward to moving in to their new Blyth home this summer . |
| 18 | Really , it was because she looked forward to getting out of the house by herself ! |
| 19 | We spent some time away from each other just to do our own things , but now we 're looking forward to getting back to how things were , lock ourselves away and work . |
| 20 | Looking forward to getting back to your farm , I should think ? |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I 'm really looking forward to getting back to the hot-seat for the new series . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm really looking forward to getting back to the hot seat for the new series , ’ says Gerry . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm fine now and looking forward to getting home for a few days . |
| 24 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 25 | ‘ Brian is a very amenable bloke whom I 'm looking forward to meeting up with at Twickenham , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Fabia knew that her mind was made up then , even though she could n't have said with any conviction that she looked forward to going up to that large , elegant house again in a week from now . |
| 27 | Kurt , however , was remarkably animate , clearly happy it was all over , and talked enthusiastically about how much he 'd enjoyed touring with Shonen Knife and was now just looking forward to going home for a rest . |
| 28 | ‘ Now I can look forward to going back to playing club rugby for Saracens . ’ |
| 29 | I could look forward to going back to school , astonishing everyone with my further weight loss , and engaging in battle with true adversaries — those who would fight back . |
| 30 | And some of Marc 's student friends told the inquest he was looking forward to going back to University . |