Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 2 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 3 | it just goes on to the edge here . |
| 4 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 5 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 6 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 7 | You 've got ta get the stu the smell goes in to the liquid then you chuck the liquid away . |
| 8 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 9 | Only that she did n't want to go down to the sea again . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Would you like to go down to the kitchen now , Tobermory , ’ asked Lady Blemley politely , ‘ and see if the cook has got your dinner ready ? ’ |
| 11 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got to go down to the off-licence later . ’ |
| 13 | You do n't want to go down to the slides yet ? |
| 14 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 15 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 16 | Modigliani sketched a middle-aged couple in evening dress who had probably dropped in to the Rotonde late one night . |
| 17 | They 're nice old people , and I think it would be good for Mrs Richards to come down to the village more , and be part of Santa Barbara . ’ |
| 18 | So , the only reason for her writing was to say that if he ever did get the chance to come over to the UK again , well , she 'd like — well , it would be nice … |
| 19 | Curtis commented wryly and moved over to the bedside again . |
| 20 | But even as she was unslinging her canvas bag , so the group moved off to the lifts again . |
| 21 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 22 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 23 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 24 | Millie moved back to the window now . |
| 25 | After a moment or two Hosanna moved back to the step again . |
| 26 | So Moely turned , and swam back to the shore as quickly as he could . |
| 27 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 28 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 29 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 30 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |