Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 32 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 33 | Few of these books , however , have any relevance to teaching undergraduate computer science as they normally restrict themselves to a single language on a single make of computer . |
| 34 | He just put it to the poor bastard . |
| 35 | Holland thus leads us to a dynamic and important role of reading : ‘ The psychoanalytic theory of literature holds that the writer expresses and disguises childhood fantasies . |
| 36 | Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside . |
| 37 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 38 | For instance , Wordsworth 's famous poem ‘ My heart leaps up ’ is in 6/8 metre , and one could quite easily fit it to the 6/8 tune of ‘ Jack and Jill ’ : Of course , the result is horrific . |
| 39 | I was hoping that my indecision might somehow communicate itself to The Fat Controller . |
| 40 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
| 41 | The new insight is that Grb2 associates with Sos1 , and thus recruits it to the activated receptor in the plasma membrane where Ras activation is presumed to take place . |
| 42 | Len Snow , Boateng 's agent says : ‘ His principles have n't changed — he has just adapted them to the '90s . ’ |
| 43 | I truly did mean just to ride him to the nearest hamlet . |
| 44 | They suspected that it might work by inserting its own genes — and in particular the ‘ promotor ’ DNA that activates them — next to an innocent cellular proto-oncogene , thus stirring it to an unnatural and cancer-causing level of activity . |
| 45 | He spent his youth in Provence where three generations of his family had already devoted themselves to the arcane mysteries of perfume business . |
| 46 | Do n't shorten the stems , just tidy them to a clean cut , and do the same with any broken roots . |
| 47 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 48 | Erm just to refer you to the last sentence , paragraph four three , er to assure members of the Committee that those er representation whether the erm application . |
| 49 | Abu piloted us with all the aplomb of a sailor surging through dangerous surf , and finally brought us to an entire circular village of some sixty three-storey houses , all shaped like space-arcs . |
| 50 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |
| 51 | DTC have already subjected us to a six-day , 20-minute daily service and a half hourly evening service . |
| 52 | Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute . |
| 53 | The right hand pulling on a not very positive lay-off and the left gripping a tenuous pinch , I moved up , expecting friction on the slab above to take me to a small shelf . |
| 54 | The stores were overrun with rats and mice and the cats came to feast on these rodent pests , thereby endearing themselves to the Egyptian people . |
| 55 | To allow them to live out their natural life-span it is necessary to slowly convert them to a marine environment as they reach a body length of 5cm . |
| 56 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 57 | We had some more Marshalls that some friends lent us and maybe a Roland JC120 — I do n't know whether those ever made it to the final edit , though . ’ |
| 58 | I would still chain myself to a disused railway line in Bacup for him , but the lad can do better . ’ |
| 59 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 60 | So I think th th that the one thing which is good I think , is a possibility of re-opening it up , and possibly using it to a fuller extent , which might actually give it er , er , new lease of life . |