Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 2 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 3 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 4 | Next he led the spinnaker sheets aft to the cockpit and made them fast to the stern cleats with plenty of slack . |
| 5 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 6 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 7 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 8 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 9 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 10 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 11 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 12 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 13 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 14 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 15 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 16 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 17 | It seemed as if Lydia would take them like a new baby and display them triumphantly to the assembled company . |
| 18 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 19 | If their shells are near the Julies , then it might be politic to shuffle them gradually to the other end . |
| 20 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 21 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 22 | But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’ |
| 23 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 24 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 25 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 26 | We shall confine ourselves here to the statutory requirements which must be observed . |
| 27 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |
| 28 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 29 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
| 30 | Where there is a Compact they will direct you immediately to the appropriate contact . |