Example sentences of "[verb] to the nearest [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this even the boldest goat fled to the nearest hut for fear of reprisal , and from the cover of the walls watched the frustrated officer screaming at sentries , Poles , hut and bicycle in turn . |
| 2 | Doyle 's eyes flickered to the nearest table behind Rosie . |
| 3 | Two of the cast fainted and most of the rest repaired to the nearest bar . |
| 4 | A heavy fixing may mean anchoring to the nearest joist |
| 5 | AS temperatures soared into the 70 's all across the north west , sensible people headed to the nearest beach . |
| 6 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 7 | ( 7.11 ) : rounding to the nearest half-penny , 22p , which is equal to the market value given in Fig. 7.2. , therefore , , hence , rounding to the nearest half-penny , this produces a value of 18.5p . |
| 8 | ( 7.11 ) : rounding to the nearest half-penny , 22p , which is equal to the market value given in Fig. 7.2. , therefore , , hence , rounding to the nearest half-penny , this produces a value of 18.5p . |
| 9 | ( 7.5 ) we can now produce estimates for the equivalent puts : rounding to the nearest half-penny , 2p . |
| 10 | He gestured to the nearest table . |
| 11 | The other 27 per cent would have to be connected to the nearest telephone line or ( in the future ) to a cable-television system . |
| 12 | Wearily , Kelly made her way back to her car , drove to the nearest hotel and booked a room . |
| 13 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 14 | Richard was immediately content , as he only was when something could be ascertained to the nearest degree of accuracy . |
| 15 | bowed to the nearest Government |
| 16 | More significantly still , these straight roads sometimes do not run to the nearest village but continue for some miles through open country , reaching the villages by means of side-roads . |
| 17 | The duration of the nadir of transient UOS relaxations was measured to the nearest second . |
| 18 | I walked to the nearest telephone box and asked the operator if she could put me through to the refuge — I did n't have a single penny . |
| 19 | Sometimes we walked to the nearest cove . |
| 20 | Many voters in areas occupied by the Khmers Rouges , where there were no polling stations , walked to the nearest voting site . |
| 21 | You press a button and a hand pops up to point to the nearest person with the right time . |
| 22 | It 's completely cordless so it goes where you go , and because it operates on both batteries and mains , you 're not tied to the nearest plug . |
| 23 | Do yourself and the community a favour by taking the rusty iron and junk you find to the nearest litter bin . |
| 24 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 25 | Rush to the nearest hospital if there is any difficulty with breathing , swelling away from the site of the sting , blue skin or lips , a sudden flush or rash , a very fast pulse or the person passes out . |
| 26 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 27 | How long does it take to the nearest hour for snails to bonk ? |
| 28 | Once recruited they were marched to the nearest railway station , entrained on a variety of wagons , and transported to recruiting reception centres and on to the mines . |
| 29 | Then I was able to help when young Mrs Thwaites at High Birk Hatt , our nearest neighbours , suffered terribly from toothache and needed to go to the nearest dentist , who was in Barnard Castle . |
| 30 | Finlay explains : ‘ Since we round to the nearest metre it could be 914.5 metres , say , which would make it a Munro . |