Example sentences of "further [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally a sheer mountain of a wave smashed over the raft with a furious roar and swept it further on to the reef away from the pounding terror . |
| 2 | They 'll take you 250 miles further on to Madrid , then you catch a plane back . |
| 3 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 4 | The next stage of what we 're doing is trying to take things a stage further on to what action can you take for fair trade ? |
| 5 | They live at home with their families and , if they should have to travel from Cwmbran to Newport , for example , or from Pontypool further on to Newport , many people would be deterred from getting involved in the voluntary forces . |
| 6 | But their hopes were dashed when the rope snapped and the Bettina Danica was pushed further on to the rocks by the rising tide and the heavy swell . |
| 7 | So they only had two hours further on to go from The Two Mills then to Hollyhead basically . |
| 8 | Now in the inside of that it opens out , there 's an opening in the bone and that leads down among other things into a tube down here , now that is connected up further down to the sinuses across |
| 9 | Was he drowned in an accident and his canoe washed further down to be buried in the silting up of the marshes ? |
| 10 | In that peat there used to be deer 's teeth , everything , parts of the jaw , horns , what we were dredging up , then we went further down to erm Downham Reach , that 's just before the Cattoes and we were dredging all green clay . |
| 11 | Soon , soon her lover will take over her whole body forcing his way deeper than any lover before — not just into her vagina , or , like Jim 's sperm , further in to her womb . |
| 12 | Her clothing shows the shape of her body — her apron is seen " " upon hir lendes " " ( 3237 ) , where it is " " ful of many a goore " " : full , we may interpret this , of pleats , leading the attention further in to the apron , and towards what lies beyond/behind it . |
| 13 | Indeed , following the street further along to where it runs over the little round-backed bridge , I could see the mist rising from the river , obscuring almost entirely one of the bridge-posts . |
| 14 | Then leaning further over to me he whispered in my ear : ‘ Did you see that crowd of shit in the streets ? |
| 15 | The distant gunfire and commotion was moving further off to his right . |
| 16 | In any case it was much further up to Tummelside . |
| 17 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 18 | The British tanks pushed them further back to the Hindenberg Line . |
| 19 | How could ‘ depth ’ be created when you had nothing to reach further back to ? |
| 20 | Think further back to the famous Oxford three-quarter line of Iain Smith , Phil Macpherson , George Aitken and A.C. Wallace . |
| 21 | If you are unlucky and suffer a bad frost-burn , be prepared to prune the stems further back to the next dormant eye , whatever its direction , and whatever the date . |
| 22 | Vico and Rousseau simply took the biblical imagery one step further back to a pre-Adamite , non-rational , world of peace and innocence . |
| 23 | A bit further back to Uni days . |
| 24 | Only Røst lay further out to sea . |
| 25 | Here he was surprised and a little frightened to find that he was being carried further out to sea . |
| 26 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 27 | Even where the coast does not face directly towards the incoming waves refraction causes the waves to swing round and approach the shore less obliquely than they were when further out to sea ( Fig. 8.8 ) . |
| 28 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |
| 29 | Originally it had gates and walls further out to sea . |
| 30 | As the mass of the inhabitants of Camberwell could not afford to move further out to the wealthier suburbs , most families stayed put . |