Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] to the " 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 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 5 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 6 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 7 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 8 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 17 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 18 | 3 Stir in the peanut butter and gently bring back to the boil until the sauce thickens and goes glossy and smooth . |
| 19 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 20 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 21 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 24 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 25 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 28 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 29 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 30 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |