Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , par excellence , both Pole and European , looking forward eagerly to the day of the creation of a united Europe — to him the ‘ motherland of motherlands ’ — free from the control of or undue influence from the two super powers . |
| 2 | They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen . |
| 3 | ‘ Anne , ’ Christine said eagerly to the surprised Anne , ‘ did n't you say that your daddy could n't get enough mistletoe to sell this Christmas ? ’ |
| 4 | Brenda looked forward eagerly to the arrival of the Brownie Pack . |
| 5 | Altogether , the end of the year , with a very happy family Christmas , made us look forward eagerly to the New Year . |
| 6 | The centre of activity by mid-December was Shanghai , where students listened eagerly to the VOA reports about Wuhan and elsewhere . |
| 7 | Dissatisfaction and despair regarding domestic crises were strong motivating factors on both occasions as young intellectuals sought solutions to personal and national problems outside of China or as Wang wrote , ‘ looked eagerly to the west for the magic which would solve the problems of their country ’ ( Wang 1928 : 60 ) . |
| 8 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 9 | I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize . |
| 10 | Sheldukher turned eagerly to the Cell . |
| 11 | There was a great round of applause when the dance ended and , flushed with excitement , Cora-Beth responded eagerly to the pressure of Harry 's hand as he kept possession of hers . |
| 12 | Two detective constables walked in and listened eagerly to the latest gossip , glancing over to the superintendent with new animation in their eyes . |
| 13 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 14 | However , there is a major problem with the model for real textual data : all references are between nodes mapped statically to a number of data pages with no scope for dynamic variation of unit size in the source and target objects . |
| 15 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 16 | We assembled our rods in the shelter of the old boathouse on the south shore and I strode purposefully to the loch , almost as a matter of principal . |
| 17 | Inspector Ghote , I once remarked a little pretentiously to an interviewer , c'est moi . |
| 18 | The muscles of the legs and abdomen , and in many insects all the flight muscles as well , respond synchronously to the nervous impulses that reach them . |
| 19 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 20 | The National Union also reacted fiercely to the attacks on Younger by coalitionist ministers , most of all Birkenhead 's description of him as " the cabin boy " and Lloyd George 's of " a second-class brewer " . |
| 21 | He pressed his forehead fiercely to the floor and hurried obediently back to his place , taking care not to look at Kim . |
| 22 | Get the tea ready , will you ? ’ he added fiercely to the young woman . |
| 23 | It was also unduly limited in the kind of explanations it offered of the course of events , explanations which appealed overmuch to the actions and dispositions of individuals , stringing them together into a complex story of aims and intrigues . |
| 24 | Meryl felt slightly dizzy among the heady scents of the plants , but nevertheless plucked a rosemary leaf from its stem and held it to her nose , crushed between finger and thumb , before releasing it to twist emptily to the ground . |
| 25 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 26 | At the same time , the fresh unrest heightened fears that the turmoil in Kashmir would lead inexorably to a serious clash between Indian and Pakistani troops facing each other across the Line of Actual Control ( LAC ) . |
| 27 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 28 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , these circumstances point inexorably to the difficulty of emulating the Danes . |
| 30 | But Rohan 's arm was like a steel band round her waist , half lifting her from her feet , and carrying her inexorably to the door . |