Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine kept repeating that she 'd get down to hacking back the brambles one of these days but on the other hand she did n't have the time . |
| 2 | Now a podgy , desperately unfit bar-fly , he simply was n't up to taking on the Man of Action role that he craved . |
| 3 | He went back to looking out the window , sometimes watching the reflection of the room in it . |
| 4 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 5 | I went back to sorting out a schedule for the day with Simon , the proprietor of Snogogram International . |
| 6 | Then , when we went back to rotating mentally the computer simulation of the room and attempting to ‘ see ’ possible lines of sight , I had a further shock . |
| 7 | From this he deduced that the boiler was too small and this led him on to wondering why the engine was so inefficient . |