Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards .
2 The laity had a pale reflection of this programme in the parish mission , designed to convert the laity or at least bring them back to regular church practices .
3 He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon .
4 Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses .
5 Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side .
6 One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention .
7 The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings .
8 I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through .
9 Despite earlier statements , both public and private , by members of the new right-leaning administration in France that they had no intention of making any immediate change in France Telecom 's status , the government told the telephone operator 's board of directors meeting last week to consider spinning off its mobile telecommunications business and opening it up to international investment .
10 ’ Then send it down to this position to pick me up ’ .
11 and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows
12 Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something
13 If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user .
14 We are applying it not to everyday life , but to that aspect of the performance mode that is , at least incipiently , present in dramatic playing .
15 However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place .
16 I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior .
17 Instead of becoming frustrated with the futility in solving the problem , the celebration of success combined with the reflection on limitations nourishes people to choose the next action that may bring them closer to real community change .
18 Is that what put you on to this business of writing about old houses ? ’
19 It was , can I just bring you back to that point
20 ‘ It will bring you back to furious life . ’
21 Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort .
22 As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies .
23 The duty of care , provided under Section 34 of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , makes all businesses responsible for ensuring that their waste is disposed of properly , by passing it on to authorized waste collectors .
24 A child was writing a poem in Bengali and passing it on to another boy to translate for him .
25 Bring back Anton Corbijn ; put it on to recycled paper
26 He lifted his head and put it slightly to one side to listen better .
27 I put it down to greater maturity and not worrying .
28 These machine errors happened two or three times a day , I put it down to mechanical damage whilst moving .
29 I put it down to that welt in his shoulder .
30 Put it down to inverted snobbery .
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