Example sentences of "[vb past] to [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 2 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 3 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 4 | Goosebumps coarsened his sleek skin , and he tried to still a trembling in his limbs . |
| 5 | You seemed to rather a lot for her . |
| 6 | Angela Flowers at the AIA ( which they insisted I called it ) opened to quite a lot of critical acclaim which really annoyed the association . |
| 7 | Her entire knowledge of what he had to do to earn his crust amounted to not a row of beans . |
| 8 | It amounted to only a fraction of the EC budget and was designed to supplement , not supplant , national policies . |
| 9 | And that should give us food for thought ; while his uncle William in Frome , amongst others , was receiving poor relief at the rate of between 1s. and 4s. per fortnight , here , in the same year of 1799 , the nephew-made-good was handing over what amounted to about a year 's dole payments to join an exclusive club in the metropolis . |
| 10 | In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back . |
| 11 | On this basis , Lynch and Bliss were to argue , rather as Kandel had done earlier for serotonin in Aplysia , that it was presynaptic plasticity that was important for the initiation of LTP , and the postsynaptic cell was simply doing what it had to as a result of the increase in the strength of the glutamate signal it was receiving . |