Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so to get back to what I gave you , you 'll take three off . |
| 2 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 3 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 4 | By the time Alaric finally finished the twelfth Runefang Sigmar has long since passed eastward to whatever fate became him , and the original chieftains who had fought at Black Fire Pass were long dead . |
| 5 | You will be all right walking alone to your house ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 7 | Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 9 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 10 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 11 | The patients , with the spectre of inadequately treated syphilis hanging over them , naturally enough submit willingly to these lengthy , and expensive courses of treatment . |
| 12 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 13 | So much had still to be said . |
| 14 | There is , however , a worrying trend that is perhaps best put down to enthusiasm . |
| 15 | So just going back to these 'ates , sulphate has got sulphur and oxygen in it , a carbonate has got what ? |
| 16 | ‘ So just piss off to your boring little job , and do n't horn in on our fun . ’ |
| 17 | Because of this , we surrender to God our self-knowledge and our self-significance , all the things we struggle so desperately to hold on to in our egoism . |
| 18 | Some employers are only just getting round to formalising recruitment and retention policies - and all that goes with them — it may be that you are one step ahead of them in attempting to update yourself appropriately . |
| 19 | Was the reality of the situation only just getting through to him ? |
| 20 | Similarly , some investors put environmental concerns uppermost on their list while others are only just waking up to green concerns . |
| 21 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 22 | I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've only just got back to my room and picked up your message . |
| 24 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 25 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 26 | Tales , too , of his prowess at cricket — " More long than stop " — and his magic rhyme which he would only ever say twice to any one person . |
| 27 | Very much like taking away to me that did , very much like no no no no . |
| 28 | it was literally b literally like going up to the shop and buying a newspaper . |
| 29 | So all those myths about the wicked step- father , the wicked step-mother and so forth seem almost to be true in this respect . |
| 30 | All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux . |