Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 2 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 3 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton used as his studio and bedroom an airy ground-floor room with french windows opening on to a balcony that overlooked the large garden . |
| 4 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 5 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 6 | And it sailed off to a island that it came to . |
| 7 | It is not official information , it is better that it goes directly to a department that can deal with it . |
| 8 | This leads directly to a situation that you should avoid . |
| 9 | It may be a cliché , but the compactness , the lack of weight , abundance and responsiveness of power , massively powerful brakes and rigidity of suspension all add up to a car that feels very much like a big kart . |
| 10 | In his early essays on the subject , Shklovsky defines it in a very wide range of terms which , broadly speaking , add up to a view that art refreshes our sense of life and experience . |
| 11 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 12 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 13 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 14 | We 're getting close to a place that 's very important to you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We sleep with the windows tight shut and wake up to a room that is absolutely fresh , ’ says Edward . |
| 16 | Gregson walked across to a blackboard that had a map of the West End stuck to it . |
| 17 | The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’ |
| 18 | Great pillars of stone swept up to a roof that seemed an infinity away , sunlight was pouring through the stained glass and falling through space to the floor below , and in one of the side chapels a group of French nuns were singing the Angelus by candlelight , their voices weaving round the stone pillars and the shafts of dark and light . |
| 19 | Rodo screamed as the light surged up to a brilliance that stung his eyes . |
| 20 | Holland 1983 ; Rescorla 1985 ) , a term used to describe the finding that subjects can come to respond appropriately to a CS that is sometimes reinforced and sometimes not according to whether some other event ( the occasion setter ) accompanies the target CS . |
| 21 | Thus , for example , Preston , Dickinson , and Mackintosh ( 1986 ) have demonstrated that rats given alternate sessions in two contexts can come to respond appropriately to a tone that signals the occurrence of shock when it occurs in one of them and the occurrence of food when it occurs in the other . |
| 22 | You will probably be less able to cope with the pressures of life ; the ability to cope and be relaxed does not come easily to a body that indulges in too little physical activity and is unhealthy . |
| 23 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 24 | he did n't really like it , but he had a lovely week , but at least we did n't come back to a house that 's full of |
| 25 | We show here that one of the DNA strands of this PPT element , previously termed 71/72 , binds specifically to a protein that is present in protein extracts prepared from rat tissue or adult rat ganglia in culture but absent in established cell lines . |
| 26 | These were the harrowing scenes at Heathrow airport as the group of Russian orphans prepared to return home to a country that regards them as mentally retarded … just because they 're without parents.They 'd spent twelve happy weeks in the Malvern Hills , being cared for by local schools.And they were dreading going back to Russia . |
| 27 | With three minutes to go , Bergsson was warming up and held on to a ball that went out of play . |
| 28 | She held on to a root that jutted out from the bank , clinging to it as long as she could , then letting go with a despairing moan and sinking , shoulder deep , in the water . |
| 29 | Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) . |
| 30 | Even at the point of entry there was overcrowding , and in 1786 an officer pointed out to a correspondent that ‘ the ship is allowed but two midshipmen , and we have sixteen gentlemen on board who are rated able seamen & captain 's servants ’ . |