Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cathy was sitting comfortably in the kitchen , talking eagerly to Hareton . |
| 2 | Without Stannard , Essex failed to convert any of 14 short corners in the final and with him back in the team , they can go purposefully to Cannock on April 17–18 . |
| 3 | Having talked sensibly to Anna about her chosen course of study , I am certain she is aware of the demands it will make on her . |
| 4 | Active life in the sense of engagement with the physical necessities and well-being of society belongs properly and sensibly to people who feel no inner compulsion towards , or understanding of , spiritual issues — as he much more trenchantly put it , they have " no sauour " of " goostli occupacioun " ( 12.123 – 4 ) . |
| 5 | It was Susy who took up most of the lunchtime conversation , partly because I probably did n't know enough about the sport to talk about it sensibly to James . |
| 6 | Not if it means that company directors are literally unable to talk sensibly to outsiders . |
| 7 | By 1980 acidity had increased sixfold to pH 4.3 . |
| 8 | From the growing disillusionment of the Spanish experience in 1937 , Nizan was led inexorably to incredulity and disbelief during the Munich crisis of September 1938 , and ultimately to bewilderment and total despair following the Nazi-Soviet pact and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 . |
| 9 | That path leads inexorably to procrastination . |
| 10 | Such compromise would , he suggested , lead inexorably to censorship to ‘ protect Muslim sensibilities against gratuitous provocation ’ . |
| 11 | Championing the symptoms , the rights of lesbians and gay men against discrimination , has led inexorably to demands that tackle the causes , for example positive images and assertions of homosexuality as equally valid with heterosexuality . |
| 12 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 13 | Since then their names have been inextricably linked ( somewhat to Bawden 's detriment ) . |
| 14 | Then , somewhat to Morse 's embarrassment , she suddenly buried her head on his shoulder and clung tightly to him . |
| 15 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 16 | But , somewhat to Henry 's disappointment , number 47 did not start necking with the bodywork . |
| 17 | The choice is upstream to Broomhill Bridge ( 1 mile ) or downstream to Grantown-on-Spey ( 3 miles ) . |
| 18 | It 's 40 minutes hard work upstream to Broomhill , even when the Spey is low . |
| 19 | That poor unfortunate had to stoke the fire , pump the tilly lamps , dash upstream to unblock the water pipe , boil the kettle — on the open fire — and arrive back at the card table an exhausted , nervous wreck . |
| 20 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 21 | You shall have your silver and your news in return for a safe trip upstream to Talisker 's Rivergate . ’ |
| 22 | It says that the discharges from the plant , which is run by British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , are carried upstream to Preston on the incoming tide and deposited in mudflats used by children to play . |
| 23 | The male stickleback migrates upstream to breeding grounds in Spring . |
| 24 | On the same day , the Tyne Head is being raced over 5km upstream to Newburn , starting at 1:45pm . |
| 25 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 26 | Working in such a school in the mid-1950s , part of my task as a very inexperienced junior teacher was to explain almost daily to parents that Peter or John or Mary would learn their tables , and learn to compute , despite the fact that they were using apparatus rather than sum books and were active rather than passive . |
| 27 | The conditions were that he resides at Handley Green , Laindon , reports daily to Laindon police station and does not enter Clacton . |
| 28 | Israel used the Gazans as a reservoir of cheap labour ; 30,000 travelled daily to Israel to work . |
| 29 | DEPARTURES BRITISH Airways ( 081-897 4000 ) flies daily to Hong Kong , apex return £468 ( Dec ) , £408 ( Jan ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Why ca n't someone on the Left ever do something like that ? ’ he remarked admiringly to Anthony Powell in 1941 , when he heard Waugh had joined a commando unit . |