Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate for waggoning increased and in a few years up to about 11/ per 100 kibbles was paid for ore brought out to the Bonsor Mill . |
| 2 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 3 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 4 | The lake was fringed with a shore of sandy pebbles and then a great curve of grass swept up to the terrace of thr house . |
| 5 | The trip down would start off quietly for a while , everyone busily engaged in talking with friends , but soon the holiday spirit would prevail and after the first stop , singing would start , and then arriving at our destination , coaches to be unloaded , mountains of food carted on to the sands , and the task of enjoying oneself began . |
| 6 | Their nest was a bit like an overgrown wren 's nest — a pile of moss fixed on to the rock face . |
| 7 | The steady expansion of land given over to the production of cash crops and the growth in population inevitably resulted in a decline in the proportion of villagers able to make a living from subsistence agriculture . |
| 8 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |
| 9 | Alternatively they may be filled with water made up to the appropriate strength of degreaser or caustic cleaner and heated to boiling point . |
| 10 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |
| 11 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 12 | or the State , everything was in effect handed over to the UndergrounD Group , under a new name . |
| 13 | They arrived in July 1547 and took the castle , after a brief siege featuring a spectacular air-battle in which the outer walls were battered by artillery hoisted on to the church steeple of St Salvator 's College and the abbey walls ; the lairds disappeared into prison in France , and Knox and others went to the galleys . |