Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three stared in astonishment as I tossed my kit bag on to the floor . |
| 2 | AS I SAT , gazing out of the Boeing 737 window watching the beautiful Norwegian countryside passing a few thousand feet below , my thoughts cam back to the reason for my visit . |
| 3 | One day when the sticky buds on the trees were at their plumpest and the sun gleamed a promise of summer , Sylvie took her sketch pad down to the little lake in the clinic grounds . |
| 4 | When they return each group enthusiastically reports their research findings back to the class . |
| 5 | As part of its Micro 2000 vision — which will take its iAPX-86 family up to the end of the millennium ( UX No 289 ) — Intel Corp is now openly talking about announcing the P6 , yes , folks , the P6 at the end of next year , three quarters after it brings on the P5 . |
| 6 | The company also reports continuing strong sales of its Mips RISC-based systems in Europe and Asia , even though it is moving its product lines over to the Alpha AXP RISC . |
| 7 | Robyn demanded , slapping down her wine glass on to the table . |
| 8 | Rehang the appropriate shoulder of the first piece you knitted from its waste yarn on to the needles you have just emptied , with the right side towards you and pulling the needles out so that the stitches are just behind the latches . |
| 9 | It dribbled something nasty from its back end on to the white sheet . |
| 10 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 11 | A mouth that trembled and opened to expose pointed thorns for teeth seemed to work to speak ; over all , the shape of the woodland creature was that of a wolf , but a bare boned wolf , its fur gone , its flesh shrunken on to the jutting bones of its body . |
| 12 | There is , it seems , a strong possibility that he abandoned her in the West and took their baby son over to the Russian zone . |
| 13 | When the food-finder arrives at its nest it uses further pheromones to recruit other ants to come and collect the food ; Myrmica rubra , for instance , having laid its trail from its poison gland , attracts its nest mates back to the food with a pheromone from its Dufour 's gland . |
| 14 | The third week in May has been earmarked by Hewlett-Packard for the launch of a new addition to its top-end HP 9000 RISC server line that should boost its performance range up to the mainframe level . |
| 15 | what power does each of them have in the state apparatus ( principally the legislature , the army , police , certain key ministries and their line agencies down to the local level ) , and outside it — in the countryside , Chambers of Commerce , the shop-floor , and so on ? |
| 16 | Has the Minister any plans to assist the West Yorkshire police authority to enable it to bring its police forces up to the required standard ? |
| 17 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 18 | She heard his body crump on to the floor behind her . |
| 19 | Asmodeus reined his devil steed around to the front of the cab . |
| 20 | Trent had already warned his charter party back to the catamaran , keeping himself between them and the big fish . |
| 21 | Jasper dropped his cigarette end on to the floor and trod it out . |
| 22 | He opened the car door and dropped his cigarette end on to the concreted surface where it glowed with vulgar ruddiness on the silver sharpness of the frost till he ground it under his foot as he stepped out . |
| 23 | White flung the pair of lemon panties he 'd had scrunched up in his coat pocket on to the arm of the chair I was sitting in . |
| 24 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 25 | Impact Unable to transfer your body weight back to the left side , you hit the shot on the upswing , resulting in a low thinned shot . |
| 26 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 27 | ‘ The main issue for us is to close the gap and we have now brought our discount rate down to the level where the highest anybody pays is 3.95 per cent . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It will require a sustained effort over 20 years to get our manufacturing base back to the levels we want to see . ’ |
| 29 | First of all , Councillor comments , erm , you know , there seems to be this this er conservative mentality , that is let's drive all our working conditions down to the level of the competition , which means , you know , we would have a a mining industry if we were prepared to put children in , like that do in Columbia . |
| 30 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |