Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point . |
| 2 | In your handout , somewhere , I 'm afraid I have n't got the pages er , cos I do n't have my handout immediately to hand , er I 've got here a short-term er programme . |
| 3 | Even today I remember my stupefaction close to terror . |
| 4 | I finished the section I had been writing — an idea left in mid-paragraph tends to vanish very quickly — then took myself and my candle early to bed . |
| 5 | As I clambered out of the trench and made my way across to Brigade H.Q I could see the jeep with the stretchers on top waiting at the entrance to the orchard . |
| 6 | It induces parties to submit their disputes voluntarily to conciliation or administrative decision and , in some areas such as divorce and custody , it involves them in working out a private solution , thus enhancing their acceptance of the outcome . |
| 7 | Thérèse rolled her eyes upwards to heaven , smiled heroically , and fell over . |
| 8 | How should we understand the state , its relationships both to society and to individuals ? |
| 9 | If the organic potatoes come from Egypt , and if cash-crop farming there is nudging its population closer to poverty , should we actually be eating them ? |
| 10 | They tend to attribute their successes more to luck and less to ability than men , and to be more influenceable . |
| 11 | However with the advent of the reef aquarium , hopefully , the greater demand may encourage breeders who have confined their efforts only to breeding aquarium fish in the past , to turn to commercially rearing invertebrates . |
| 12 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 13 | There is also a small sector of very expensive élite schools which teach in Spanish and English , used mainly by upper and upper-middle class families who aspire to send their children abroad to university . |
| 14 | It is visible with the naked eye , and its position close to Eta and Mu makes it very easy to locate . |
| 15 | By the end of the year Oman had raised its production close to capacity ( 700,000 barrels per day ) and efforts were under way to boost production capability . |
| 16 | But fear and anger tightened her throat almost to choking-point . |
| 17 | Low gravity beers are called ‘ light ’ — even when they are black or walnut brown in colour — medium gravity beers are called ‘ heavy ’ and strong beers are known as ‘ export ’ , recalling the heyday of Scottish brewing when companies such as Younger sold their beers extensively to North America , India and Australasia . |
| 18 | Even when the incumbent on the throne showed little inclination for active policy-making , those who acted for the Tsar owed their power solely to proximity to the throne . |
| 19 | She gave harp lessons and sent her son firmly to school . |
| 20 | However , the couple found help for their son closer to home at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Development Centre , near BAe 's Broughton plant . |
| 21 | ‘ So Damon 's giving all his money away to charity , ’ retorts Marlon sardonically . |
| 22 | And of Katherine Hepburn : ‘ She ran the gamut of expressions from A to B. ’ One-liners that catch the eye include : The best play I ever slept through ; I 've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella ; I saw the play at a disadvantage — the curtain was up ; The scenery was beautiful but the actors got in front of it ; When Mr Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell , he underestimates the distance . ’ |
| 23 | Emotion had darkened his eyes almost to black , shocking her , but otherwise he kept his expression rigidly controlled . |
| 24 | Sam dropped his gaze thoughtfully to Midnight 's teeth tearing at his grass , and knew that his dear old bike was doomed . |
| 25 | His attitude both to life and art , charming enough in him , when taken up by others as a general cultural ideal becomes something deadly , especially for the English , an intelligent but very lazy people , far too easily bored , and persuaded beyond argument that they are the Herrenvolk . |
| 26 | As Joseph led his people away to winter in the Imnaha canyons , however , all the commissioners except Wood signed a report recommending the suppression of all Dreamer shamans , military occupation of the Wallowa and removal ‘ by force ’ of all non-treaty bands . |
| 27 | They tell of how the Israelites were caught between the Reed Sea and the pursuing Egyptian army , and how God drove the Egyptians into the sea to drown , while leading his people across to safety . |
| 28 | Albert Tarr , a 54-year-old deaf tailor without speech , was standing in the place where he always stood to catch his train home to East Anstey after finishing work . |
| 29 | To an incoming Minister , who may owe his appointment more to adeptness in handling argument on paper or on the floor of the House of Commons , such inhibitions can come as an unwelcome surprise . |
| 30 | After a final desultory wander round Charterhouse Square , he made his way home to bed . |