Example sentences of "[adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre of activity by mid-December was Shanghai , where students listened eagerly to the VOA reports about Wuhan and elsewhere . |
| 2 | He was , par excellence , both Pole and European , looking forward eagerly to the day of the creation of a united Europe — to him the ‘ motherland of motherlands ’ — free from the control of or undue influence from the two super powers . |
| 3 | They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen . |
| 4 | Dissatisfaction and despair regarding domestic crises were strong motivating factors on both occasions as young intellectuals sought solutions to personal and national problems outside of China or as Wang wrote , ‘ looked eagerly to the west for the magic which would solve the problems of their country ’ ( Wang 1928 : 60 ) . |
| 5 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 6 | I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize . |
| 7 | There was a great round of applause when the dance ended and , flushed with excitement , Cora-Beth responded eagerly to the pressure of Harry 's hand as he kept possession of hers . |
| 8 | Sheldukher turned eagerly to the Cell . |
| 9 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 10 | Brenda looked forward eagerly to the arrival of the Brownie Pack . |
| 11 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 12 | We assembled our rods in the shelter of the old boathouse on the south shore and I strode purposefully to the loch , almost as a matter of principal . |
| 13 | He pressed his forehead fiercely to the floor and hurried obediently back to his place , taking care not to look at Kim . |
| 14 | Meryl felt slightly dizzy among the heady scents of the plants , but nevertheless plucked a rosemary leaf from its stem and held it to her nose , crushed between finger and thumb , before releasing it to twist emptily to the ground . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , these circumstances point inexorably to the difficulty of emulating the Danes . |
| 16 | But Rohan 's arm was like a steel band round her waist , half lifting her from her feet , and carrying her inexorably to the door . |
| 17 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 18 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 19 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 20 | But Nenna , somewhat to the curate 's surprise , for he seldom felt himself to be a truly welcome guest , was already half way up the companion . |
| 21 | Not long before there had been a lively correspondence in The Times about cheese , and somewhat to the surprise of certain devotees , Eliot had intervened in it . |
| 22 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 23 | He sounded somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan . |
| 24 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 25 | I recall Leslie Compton of Middlesex bowling and keeping wicket in the same match and , somewhat to the annoyance of the spectators , padding and unpadding at the end of each over . |
| 26 | She had yielded somewhat to the Colonel 's insistence . |
| 27 | In this figure the normal profile is represented by the curve CD , which is not adapted to glacial conditions as these require aggradation upstream to the level B and erosion downstream to the level A. An excellent example of crossing profiles of this type is provided by the river Durance in southern France ( Baulig , 1950 ) . |
| 28 | Gathering up our two young children , we edged away upstream to the cover of some trees . |
| 29 | Within a few minutes all the rigs had arrived and splashed in , and the earlier arrivals which had formed two- and three-rig rafts were crabbing across the river and pushing upstream to the bridge centreline . |
| 30 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |