Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zimberalda … you 've come back to me at last ! ’ she snorts , wiping the tears from her eyes . |
| 2 | Very little built on to it at that stage . |
| 3 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so . |
| 5 | ’ Thank goodness I 've got through to you at last . |
| 6 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 7 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 8 | and then is she coming back to you at all ? |
| 9 | You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , nothing seemed to get through to him at all . |
| 11 | The original idea is in danger of becoming diluted , and if everyone 's technology and operating systems have to be accommodated , the danger is that — as with the Advanced Computing Environment consortium — the result wo n't add up to anything at all . |
| 12 | The original idea is in danger of becoming diluted , and if everyone 's technology and operating systems have to be accommodated , the danger is that — like the ACE Consortium — the result wo n't add up to anything at all . |
| 13 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 14 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |