Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] stick to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 2 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 3 | This was perhaps the most directly inflationary aspect of Pitt 's financial management , and the bridging of the gap between income and expenditure was not helped by his stubbornly sticking to the idea of the Sinking Fund . |
| 4 | I suppose the main difference I notice about living in the two environments is how my dress is n't bound by convention on the island , I just stick to wearing what is most comfortable . |
| 5 | ‘ I always stick to the limits and am not a boy racer , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 7 | Chairman and I , I still stick to wh what I said that I think that we ought to reverse and , and p put two to number one erm er and with the addition of those words , because |
| 8 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 9 | She advises them not to stick to scientism , but to draw on dreams , fantasies , and utopian wonderlands as well . |
| 10 | Will you risk my dry Martini or would you rather stick to sherry ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You do get the believers and the buffs , the little sects who just stick to their beliefs and wo n't listen to anything else . |
| 12 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
| 13 | Nice going Pearce … why do nt you just stick to ‘ inspiring ’ Forests continued decline ? ? |
| 14 | We knew she would n't go near the road because she was so frightened of people and movement that she always stuck to the security and space of the golf course . |
| 15 | Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’ |
| 16 | A MAN who usually stuck to soft drinks died after downing at least a dozen whiskies , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 17 | Consumers who once stuck to favourite brands most or all of the time are now willing to try any item that catches their eye . |
| 18 | As long as you also stick to your diet , weight loss will occur . |
| 19 | The restoration of the once-derelict mill was carried out by Wilf Medlam who steadfastly stuck to his policy of using the correct parts and materials wherever possible . |
| 20 | So just keep telling yourself beforehand that whatever else happens , you are going to be the sole runner among the 25,000 who resolutely sticks to his/her comfortable training pace from Mile One . |
| 21 | ‘ Can we just stick to what we 're here to discuss ? |
| 22 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 23 | They only stick to Union regulations when it suits them . ’ |
| 24 | Although if they use newspapers to do it , they generally stick to the one method . |
| 25 | Later she wondered if he was counting on her not sticking to her resolution . |
| 26 | All you ever hear is how great football teams like Newcastle/Chelsea/West Ham/Liverpool/Scum have always played ( even Wolves got a mention somewhere the other day ) , & how they always stick to thier principles . |
| 27 | Can maths teachers be entrusted with drawing inferences , trends etc. from significant data , or must they automatically stick to anodyne data which will offend no one but will automatically remove true significance from their work and lead to many students being bereft of motivation ? |
| 28 | Prodded for details of his own guitar tunings , Cooder reveals that he mostly sticks to DGDGBD , a plain open G , or DADF&sharp ; AD , an open D , although he sometimes changes the open G to an open C , or tunes the second string up to make open D into a D6 tuning . |
| 29 | But he normally sticks to brackets rather than , he 's got X is it X squared plus four , it 's exactly the same . |
| 30 | How can anyone seriously stick to a diet if they are hungry ? |