Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] something [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's actually sometimes thinking about , can I tie in something else to this , which may bring the whole picture , bring it all together , but be creative . |
| 2 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 3 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 4 | He was fumbling with something close to his left side . |
| 5 | He had challenged almost everything she had said and what was meant as an informative introduction to a public relations exercise had developed into something close to a public brawl . |
| 6 | Some children will be reading about something close to their own experience , close to their own emotional world . |
| 7 | I 'm pleased to see that she 's reverted to something close to her original appearance for the evening , though the casual style now carries designer labels . |
| 8 | Under his scheme they would be elected by something close to Britain 's first-past-the-post system . |