Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he then requires bailiff service the bailiff serves the summons by delivering it at the said address and by delivering it to the person having , or appearing to have , control or management there alternatively to a partner personally . |
| 2 | Little wonder that a meal of mainly refined foods , gulped down in seconds , tends to lead to second helpings to extend the time of eating , or another meal or snack shortly afterwards to ‘ bulk out ’ the eating pleasure of the day . |
| 3 | A final climb to the hut finds a way over ice polished rocks , made simple by ladders that snake upwards almost to the hut door , where the friendly guardian and her daughter made us welcome . |
| 4 | Even here , however , Mr Coase and his colleagues have forced economists to think harder about how to use market forces to achieve green ends , rather than resort too quickly to the blunderbuss of regulation . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh God , Rainbow , let's just get back in that taxi and scarper straight home to London , ’ mutters Becky to her niece . |
| 6 | I 'm sure your enlightened civilizing mission which is bringing modern communications and industry so unselfishly to the Annamese people will make sure that no such conflict will ever be necessary here . |
| 7 | For the last twenty years of progressive manufacturing decline in Britain , the one optimistic assertion had been that while industry 's contraction might be irreversible , at least the City of London remained the financial centre of Europe and second only perhaps to New York in the world . |
| 8 | Lower your hands and body as close to the leg as possible . |
| 9 | As you stretch up , turn to face one leg and lower your hands and body as close to the leg as possible . |
| 10 | He was by now running the family 's 700-acre holding in his own right , and farming right up to the power station boundary . |
| 11 | 9.00 pm , and we are fed our complimentary supper of sausages and mash — hardly the food of love , unless you 're a particularly staunch Freudian — and head stodgily back to the dance-floor . |
| 12 | So I ignore the directive I have just been given , and head straight back to London . |
| 13 | Those on board were aware that they were approaching the point at which it would have to swing east and head inevitably back to Europe . |
| 14 | Although the two forms are almost certainly not interchangeable in JC , having different functions , both are used for past actions and map broadly on to the British English simple past . |
| 15 | He transferred his mastery of comic timing and expression more successfully to film than many British comedians . |
| 16 | Her desires might be seen as figurative of more general feelings among postmodernist British authors , seeking inspiration and affection less often to be found within their own shores . |
| 17 | Beautifully made and beautifully decorated , Kamares vessels are of a quality and refinement never again to be achieved in the Aegean world . |