Example sentences of "[art] [adv] they [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 2 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 3 | Indeed , the more one thinks about them , the more they conform to the conventional pattern of the apprenticeship , with their carefully graduated stages ( apprentice , journeyman , master ) , their strict job demarcations , the emphasis on personal contact and role modelling , the gradual increase in responsibility , the mimicking of the activity of research in seminars , and library and project work . |
| 4 | All sides are hoping for a successful horse fair this year and that the closest they get to a confrontation is a clash of cultures . |
| 5 | All sides are hoping for a successful horse fair this year and that the closest they get to a confrontation is a clash of cultures . |
| 6 | The closest they got to an opinion on the two campaigns was when Andrew said that Labour 's campaign organisers had been ‘ more laid back ’ than the Tories , but his brother immediately disagreed , saying that perhaps the Conservatives had shown more flexibility in their poster plans . |
| 7 | Bees clamber into its throat and sip a nectar so intoxicating that after they have taken only a little they begin to stagger about . |