Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 2 | The fifty one year old tried to crawl back to the house but collapsed . |
| 3 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 4 | Hurricanes of 213 , 229 and 238 Squadron aboard H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ on 21 May 1941 ready to fly off to the Middle East via Malta on Operation ‘ Splice ’ . |
| 5 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 6 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 7 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 8 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 9 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , West Indies dominated these , winning seventeen of the first twenty-two played up to the end of 1985–6 . |
| 11 | Which left Fabia racking her brains to think of how next best to get through to the woman . |