Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower them slowly to shoulder height . |
| 2 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 3 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 4 | The element of distortion and the handling of the space in these paintings relates them intimately to Cubism , although most Cubist painting is close , too , in feeling to the more constructive and austere portraits , still lifes and landscapes . |
| 5 | That there are distanciations and self-reflexivities is apparent , but to attribute them mechanically to Brecht or to modernism is formalist in its most naive sense . |
| 6 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 7 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 8 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 9 | And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers . |
| 10 | Someone close to Mr Mandela described him yesterday as a chess player five moves ahead of anyone else in the game . |
| 11 | he 's changed his tomorrow to Moscow |
| 12 | Her joking tone matched his almost to perfection . |
| 13 | It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it . |
| 14 | I think we 'll send someone else to Tokyo . |
| 15 | Sources close to the leggy catwalk queen , who signed a £1.2 million pop deal , say she has written a lot of lyrics and whoever matches them best to music will go into the studio with her . |
| 16 | By the late 1920s these cars were really in need of drastic rebuilding and from 1927 , it was possible to send them away to Hendon for this to be done properly . |
| 17 | We send them away to school — have to , living in the depths of the country . |
| 18 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 19 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 20 | Edward , however , was still reluctant to commit himself wholeheartedly to Balliol 's cause . |
| 21 | ‘ You and Miss Smith can go now , McGee , ’ said Wheeler curtly , addressing himself only to McGee . |
| 22 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 23 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 24 | From the time of the Russian counter-offensive in mid-November 1942 , the Wehrmacht reports — seen and amended by Hitler himself — were largely silent about Stalingrad , and Goebbels , probably not fully informed of the true situation , confined himself largely to warnings about the severity of the struggle and the need to avoid the impression that a decisive stroke was imminent . |
| 25 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 26 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 27 | Others close the pupil right down , and because of the muscular effort needed to create a small round opening , cats , crocodiles and many other nocturnal animals have pupils which close to form slits . |
| 28 | Now somebody like to Dr somebody like to . |
| 29 | But that sudden reminder of ‘ thoughts full of bitterness ’ and images too dearly loved ’ , as he expressed himself theatrically to Southey , subdued his high spirits only briefly . |
| 30 | Frank looked from one to the other , and then , addressing himself solely to Peggy , he said , ‘ You 'd better hang on to something , Peggy . |