Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Small spaces help residents to communicate with each other — and also give them somewhere to escape to . |
| 2 | Even in those large congregations all the bidding prayers are spontaneous , beautifully prayed and with everyone obviously listening to what was being said . |
| 3 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 4 | The view is widespread among the senior officers we talked to , and among ordinary policemen , that policewomen , as women , have instincts and capabilities which make them better suited to specific types of police work . |
| 5 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 6 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 7 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 8 | that disputes will be settled by the witness ( grandmother ) , whom all agree to be objective and fair-minded . |
| 9 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 10 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 11 | I rarely go to her house and I do n't think she 's ever been to my flat , but our friendship is very much part of our working lives . |
| 12 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
| 13 | ‘ I rarely used to Hasselblad . |
| 14 | I rarely talk to my parents these days , or visit the family home . |
| 15 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 16 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 17 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 18 | Now , Pat and I found ourselves nervously waiting to be let in . |
| 19 | The one I mostly chat to is the biology teacher . |
| 20 | But the one I eventually went to was very good . |
| 21 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 22 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 23 | As I hold them I slowly sink to the deep dark bottom . |
| 24 | It was as fine an afternoon as you could wish for as I slowly descended to Malham Beck , the Cove coming into view on my left as I walked down . |
| 25 | For a little while I was afraid I was going to land in the middle of a town , but I mercifully drifted to the edge of this . |
| 26 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |
| 27 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 28 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 29 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 30 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |