Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make the mix fairly dry and press it well down into the joints , filling them right to the top and finishing them flush . |
| 2 | Lower them slowly to the start position . |
| 3 | His master closed his book and invited me politely to the table . |
| 4 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 5 | Do n't take me right to the party , drop me off at Sam 's . |
| 6 | It took me right to the McDarroch days as he fished out one forceps after another , opened and shut them a few times then tried them on me . |
| 7 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone who may be able to lead me right to the heart of the operation , ’ he said softly . |
| 9 | Functionally the nerve cells may be sensory ( afferent ) neurons , conveying impulses inwards from the sense organs ( p. 123 ff. ) , motor or efferent neurons , conveying them outwards to the effector organs , and association neurons ( interneurons ) that link the other two types . |
| 10 | My quest took me swiftly to the premises of John F. Renshaw & Company , giants among British nut people , and purveyors of nuts to royalty . |
| 11 | But then there was a sound that sent me swiftly to the door . |
| 12 | Every clinic in the United Kingdom has to collect figures on the total attendance and the diagnoses and submit them quarterly to the Department of Health . |
| 13 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 14 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 15 | If they are knitting successfully I leave them alone ; if they do n't knit successfully I select them manually to the holding position ( with the holding levers set to knit ) to help them knit . |
| 16 | Two messengers take them to Paris and deliver them personally to the ambassador . ’ |
| 17 | That brings me naturally to the scribblings of the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) . |
| 18 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 19 | We must apply ourselves right to the end of games . ’ |
| 20 | There were areas in the Carpathians , in the Balkans , in the western marches of Russia , in Scandinavia and Spain — to confine ourselves only to the most developed continent — where the world economy , and hence the rest of the modern world , material or mental , meant little enough . |
| 21 | In so far as any rules had been devised in the past , the principle seems to have been to give power to someone close to the throne , and invested therefore with some of the aura of royalty . |
| 22 | Lot was inspired by Ernst Dümmler 's Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches , to write not annals but a history of Charles 's reign : " But we have kept tightly within the frame of our subject : while M. Duemmler , under colour of writing the history of the East Frankish kingdom , has dealt almost as much with the history of Italy , of Lotharingia , of West Francia , we have devoted ourselves uniquely to the study of this last country , seen from a political point of view " . |
| 23 | There is another , more subtle effect of exercise which is to be gained from pushing ourselves periodically to the limits of our endurance , and beyond . |
| 24 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 25 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 26 | We shall confine ourselves here to the statutory requirements which must be observed . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a good thing you do n't know any secrets — you 'd give them away to the milkman ! ’ ’ |
| 28 | Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do . |
| 29 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 30 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |