Example sentences of "[adv] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , par excellence , both Pole and European , looking forward eagerly to the day of the creation of a united Europe — to him the ‘ motherland of motherlands ’ — free from the control of or undue influence from the two super powers . |
| 2 | They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen . |
| 3 | Dissatisfaction and despair regarding domestic crises were strong motivating factors on both occasions as young intellectuals sought solutions to personal and national problems outside of China or as Wang wrote , ‘ looked eagerly to the west for the magic which would solve the problems of their country ’ ( Wang 1928 : 60 ) . |
| 4 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 5 | There was a great round of applause when the dance ended and , flushed with excitement , Cora-Beth responded eagerly to the pressure of Harry 's hand as he kept possession of hers . |
| 6 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 7 | Brenda looked forward eagerly to the arrival of the Brownie Pack . |
| 8 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , these circumstances point inexorably to the difficulty of emulating the Danes . |
| 10 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 11 | Not long before there had been a lively correspondence in The Times about cheese , and somewhat to the surprise of certain devotees , Eliot had intervened in it . |
| 12 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 13 | He sounded somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan . |
| 14 | I recall Leslie Compton of Middlesex bowling and keeping wicket in the same match and , somewhat to the annoyance of the spectators , padding and unpadding at the end of each over . |
| 15 | Gathering up our two young children , we edged away upstream to the cover of some trees . |
| 16 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 17 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 18 | The Riverside Theatre Foyer Gallery on the Coleraine Campus and the Foyer Gallery in the Faculty of Art and Design 's Belfast Campus promote regular monthly exhibitions , on view daily to the public during office hours , except weekends . |
| 19 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 20 | The list of people who have profited from crime and murder through book or film rights is growing almost daily to the consternation of victim support groups and grieving relatives . |
| 21 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 22 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 23 | It ran from the end of the road , pulled by a rather weary horse which had a habit of stopping suddenly to the dismay of its passengers . |
| 24 | As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground . |
| 25 | The vet was forced into an unscheduled arrival at 50 miles-an-hour into a nearby farm-yard , much to the surprise of a herd of Jerseys ambling their way to the milking parlour ! |
| 26 | Thanks to her capable care — and much to the surprise of the doctors — he did n't succumb until the age of seventy , despite his daily ‘ only bit a pleasure ’ , ten Woodbines and a box of Swans . |
| 27 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 28 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |
| 29 | Under the present arrangement , single week Championship Series are guaranteed six top-rated players , although much to the surprise of four tournament directors , one of whom is on the Tour Board , the word ‘ guaranteed ’ has been changed to read ‘ Tour goal ’ . |
| 30 | Much to the surprise of the bishops , he did this by a motu proprio on 15 September , Apostolica Sollicitudo . |