Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reckon that dubbing French dialogue on to the kids ' favourite soaps will keep them switched on in class . |
| 2 | Students with severe and profound disabilities and learning difficulties are entitled to attend high school up to the early twenties in the USA . |
| 3 | Later in the century , with the rise of the labour movement , a different contrast was drawn , between capitalism and socialism , between ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ and ‘ socialist democracy ’ , and this distinction has largely dominated political controversy up to the present time . |
| 4 | Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children . |
| 5 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
| 6 | Cross the Bahnhof bridge , and you will have come full circle back to the starting point . |
| 7 | So not only am I in a job I know , I 'm also in a position to pass vital information back to the Israelis . |
| 8 | GERRY CAN Celtic striker Gerry Creaney is confident he will help bring European joy back to the fans at Parkhead |
| 9 | It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . |
| 10 | farther east on the southern frontier , the wars against the Buryats caused great turmoil up to the end of the seventeenth century , when the back-and-forth migrations of Buryat and Mongol clans was brought to an end by the closing of the frontier between the Russian Empire and Chinese ‘ Outer Mongolia ’ . |
| 11 | The present standard of Woolmer Road , the county say , is inadequate to accommodate safely the traffic volumes likely to result from directing two-way traffic on to the route . |
| 12 | The basin will provide important back up to the government 's new policy of allowing nature to take its course in some cases . |
| 13 | He was pouring boiling water on to the tea . |
| 14 | All children were entitled to free elementary education up to the age of fourteen . |
| 15 | In Paris , the government 's response was an admission of impotence : it turned civilian authority over to the Commander-in-Chief , General Raoul Salan . |
| 16 | He waited until they were lost to sight beyond a fold of ground and a belt of trees , and then made good speed down to the little river , splashed through it where the banks were level and firm , and climbed the slope on the other side . |
| 17 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 18 | At some locations road markings or road signs indicate free flow on to the roundabout in specified lanes . |
| 19 | We sat down and Harvey speared fried chicken on to the three plates . |
| 20 | The taxi pulled into her street , the leafy shade of the trees sending dappled moonlight on to the long , sleek black bonnet of a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce limousine . |
| 21 | On the small monitor screen his great external weapon was white-hot , seething , dripping molten metal on to the carapace below . |
| 22 | Léonie sifted silky flour on to the wide brass pan of the scales . |
| 23 | Pour boiling water on to the leaves in a clean container or teapot and leave to stand for 3–10 minutes ( no longer , otherwise the flavour changes ) . |
| 24 | I 've gone bloody back down to the bottom ! |
| 25 | What Acheson had in mind , principally , was the agreement to create a Vietnamese National Army ; a hopeful assessment of the agreement that had been reached after the long-drawn-out negotiations at Pau to turn local administration over to the Vietnamese early in 1951 ( although , as Acheson notes , the transfer date kept being postponed ) and de Lattre 's appointment to Indo-China . |
| 26 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 27 | Conversely , Habitat flew in the face of expert opinion when it introduced pack-flat furniture on to the American market . |
| 28 | But they are prepared to act on the political stage according to a script which permits pragmatic compromise up to the point where further compromise would endanger the fundamental evangelical principles of the background . |
| 29 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 30 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |