Example sentences of "to [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it adds next to nothing to the caption . |
| 2 | He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises . |
| 3 | Mount Patrick appeared to have the race sewn up after he collared Radiant Monarch two out , but he stopped to nothing on the run-in and Ovac Star swept past . |
| 4 | The most usual way for a musician to do business in Jamaica was through a producer , who would pay the musician a nominal sum for his work and then make his own deals with record companies : a system which traditionally guaranteed disproportionately generous returns for the producer , and next to nothing for the musician . |
| 5 | It all however came to nothing as the entertainments and payments were proved not to have been made by Dixon but by his father , the Provost of Dumbarton . |
| 6 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 7 | The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party . |
| 8 | But western audiences know next to nothing about the martial arts . |
| 9 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 10 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 11 | And thins to nothing but the wish I made |
| 12 | One must hope for that ; the present position was Mrs Gracie 's fault , and had led to nothing but the discovery of passion . |
| 13 | The English writer Max Beerbohm spoke of how the music-halls had ‘ grown up with reference to nothing but the public 's own needs and aspirations ’ , of how the audience was ‘ the maker of the form ’ , and of how music-hall had always offered ‘ a great chance to any student of humanity at large ’ . |
| 14 | The latest is comedian Freddie Starr , who also claims to remember ‘ working my b******* off for next to nothing under the last Labour government ’ ( can you work out what the asterisks stand for ? ) |
| 15 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 16 | Politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run and so I guess the only satisfactory way forward would be to leave badgers completely alone and compensate farmers in full for badger-related losses , including consequential losses . ’ |
| 17 | Next to nothing in the way of violence . |
| 18 | They 'll still come to nothing in the end … |
| 19 | The outside world and all its adversities faded away to nothing in the heated thrill of his embrace . |
| 20 | Disregarding a couple of old Them tracks , this is culled from the mid to late 80s , meaning lots of dreamy atmosphere but next to nothing in the way of great songs . |
| 21 | You go into the pick and mix and seventy five P a quarter , so you get next to nothing in the bottom of the bag |
| 22 | For my first tournament you were paid next to nothing from the caddie-master 's box , and your tips depended on how far you progressed in the tournament . |
| 23 | Apparently he had talked to no-one in the A.R.R. Unit . |
| 24 | As the floor numbering system at all modern universities is totally unintelligible to everyone except the drug-crazed mathematician who thought it up , I just followed my nose . |
| 25 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 26 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |
| 27 | I 'll send a thankq to everyone via the list before I get *many more * replies ! |
| 28 | However , it should have been obvious to the pilot , and to everyone at the launch point , that with either a swing or a wing-drop there would almost certainly be a collision . |
| 29 | The two and a half hour plenary session this afternoon will provide a forum to bring the insights of the workshops to everyone at the conference and to make practical suggestions for the way forward . |
| 30 | It must be accessible to everyone at the start . |