Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] they [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
| 2 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 3 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
| 4 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 5 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 6 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 7 | The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank . |
| 8 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 9 | You will do that because you think their price will be lower when it comes to delivering them back to the lender at an agreed date . |
| 10 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 11 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 12 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |