Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 2 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 3 | I do not see why I should so deliver myself up to those who are so assiduously conducting the campaign of abuse and denigration directed at me . |
| 4 | So bringing you back to after the war , er how did the business continue er then or for , from that time forward ? |
| 5 | So I thought I 'd better deliver her back to her husband . |
| 6 | About 50 paisley-shirted individuals suddenly found themselves up to their knees in wet mud . |
| 7 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 8 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |
| 9 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , I better bring you up to date a bit . |
| 11 | I 'd better bring you up to date on what 's been happening since I saw you . ’ |
| 12 | For many pensioners this week 's increases will only bring them back to where they were 18 months ago , and some pensioners will still be worse off . |
| 13 | The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance . |
| 14 | He told them that by turning off here , the company they were following would almost certainly be heading for upper Teviotdale , by Rankilburn , Buccleuch and Bellenden , since the Ettrick valley would merely bring them back to its junction with Yarrow again . |
| 15 | You only let it out to the girls because you got a shock when they said they 'd seen . |
| 16 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I 'd better keep you up to date — you left here in such a rush , you did n't say whether you had any thoughts on the villa business … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , we 're not polite society , lad , so tip it on to the grass and we 'll pretend we 're not locking . |
| 19 | Cos you can only use them up to about four I would think cos other , other than that they get a bit too big for them do n't they ? he could do with a little slide in the garden |
| 20 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 21 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 22 | The mailed hand in his kept hold firmly enough to draw him down to his knees as its owner sank back into the turf . |
| 23 | Someone else was going to do this one and then they suddenly switched me on to it . ’ |
| 24 | The holder can not cash the cheque , but only pay it in to a bank account , or savings bank , or assign it to a third party . |
| 25 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 26 | He had better try them out to James . |
| 27 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 28 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 29 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd better take us up to the refrigerator factory , ’ Gary said . |