Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 2 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 3 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 4 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 5 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 7 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 8 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 9 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 10 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 11 | This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) . |
| 12 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 13 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 14 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 15 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 16 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 17 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 18 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 19 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 20 | A distinction must also be made between agroforestry and plantation forestry ; the former involves the integration of silviculture with agricultural systems while the latter is entirely given over to timber production . |
| 21 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 22 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 23 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 24 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again . |
| 26 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 27 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 29 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 30 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |