Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work .
2 Many a kite has been lost out to sea from a beach site , or into treetops from the local park , as the result of an over stressed and broken line .
3 The company , which made its name with the Microdata Reality version of Pick , running on machines built in-house , has been moving over to software and services , which now account for 58% of total business , and on the hardware side , the company now buys in its machines .
4 He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save .
5 The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity .
6 Reference has been made above to citation peaks — the period during which the largest number of citations is recorded .
7 The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) .
8 Research in the USA , however , has shown that the HIV virus can survive , in insufficiently treated sewage which has been pumped out to sea , for up to 12 hours .
9 Nearly all of that has been turned over to animal feed .
10 The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers .
11 Elland Road 's under-soil heating has been switched on to beat the frost and give Batty his first game since suffering a hairline ankle fracture in October .
12 The sea has been forced out to sea , the beaches have been forced out along the coast .
13 Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December .
14 Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December .
15 Comprehensive Mathematics for O-level was first published in 1983 and it has been reprinted twice to date .
16 The story has been brought up to date with a challenging final chapter by Professor Lance Lanyon , Principal of the College .
17 " The curriculum has been completely revised and especially in English has been brought up to date .
18 The 43-year-old millionaire has been brought in to shake up Central Office .
19 At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity .
20 Just such a house has been brought back to life by Timothy and Christine Easton .
21 In the event of dealing with leasehold property , the seller should be asked to complete an " additional property information " form , which does in fact contain a series of questions peculiar to leasehold premises such as management accounts , service charges , etc , and you should ask the seller both for evidence that the rent has been paid up to date and for evidence of current insurance cover .
22 The former Community Charge was payable on a variety of days depending on the payment method used and this procedure has been carried forward to Council Tax .
23 Other Ketamine users also report being plugged in to information networks while in K cyberspace .
24 I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars .
25 She 'd been determined not to scream , but a loud , parrot-like squawk was wrenched from her lips .
26 Even if he 'd been rushed straight to hospital , they might not have been able to save him .
27 Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’
28 ‘ Folk must have been swept out to sea .
29 Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line .
30 I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea .
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