Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 2 | They 're on board an air ambulance which has just landed in Ancona , where they 'll meet the evacuees and prepare them for the journey to Britain . |
| 3 | Not wishing to drop them in a crater , he obligingly pointed them towards the road to Belleek . |
| 4 | Say nothing of the hound to Sir Henry . |
| 5 | I had completely forgotten Karen until her squeal of laughter reminded me of the answer to Alison 's question . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's nobody in the UK to date that 's really offered small to medium-sized businesses the same buying power and service as large companies , ’ said Jane Knowles , marketing manager for Business Superstore . |
| 7 | Sir Alistair 's light-hearted speech included a sideways swipe at Häagen-Dazs — ‘ it 's come to something when an ice-cream positions itself as the alternative to KY Jelly ’ and another at people who trade on their Scottish names as a guarantee of their trustworthiness — such as Robert Maxwell . |
| 8 | After breakfast , your game drive takes you through the park to Seronera Wildlife Lodge for lunch . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd better apprise you of the situation to date . |
| 10 | Whether at the planning stage or up and running , Midland has an Enterprise Counsellor in every branch who can guide you along the path to success . |
| 11 | ‘ It gets you in the mood to party . ’ |
| 12 | Today I 'm taking you in the carriage to Millcote to buy you some elegant clothes . |
| 13 | So , needless to say I do n't like them , but I 'll show you on the A to Z where Upper Parliament Street is . |
| 14 | " Are you on the way to metalwork ? " |
| 15 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 16 | This tells us something about the limits to fusion as an articulative method ( as against other methods , such as parody or deliberate disjunction ) and about the limits to the expropriation of meaning : some syntactic structures are simply incompatible . |
| 17 | There 's one other factor , at the bottom of that , er page , will tell you something about the allocation to units . |
| 18 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
| 19 | ‘ Even if we do n't like everything in the response to Arcic I , it will be progress , ’ Dr Runcie said . |
| 20 | At one extreme , it is possible to try to commit everything on the tape to paper . |
| 21 | There is a negative-sloping and convex relationship between ( the natural logarithm of ) the price of the bond and ( the natural logarithm of ) one plus the yield to maturity . |
| 22 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |
| 23 | There 's also a baseline heavy enough to hang half a dozen DJs from , and a funk aesthetic that you can currently detect in everyone from the Sandals to Galliano , Brand New Heavies to D-Influence . |
| 24 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 25 | When Eliot had spoken well of me in the reply to John Garrett , to which I have referred , the latter was slightly miffed , I could tell ; for although he showed it me with some pride as being a favourable reply to his request , he countered the praise it contained by saying that Eliot was being far too kind to an absolute novice . |
| 26 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 27 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 28 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |
| 29 | ‘ Third Term ’ ( Deltic ) Re-released as a 12-inch , with the added bonus of a stunning acoustic version of ‘ The Newshound ’ ( an acute portrayal of the scum that litter the daily tabloids ) — and rightly so , because quite frankly this puts 90 per cent of single released this year into the shade and kicks them in the teeth to boot . |
| 30 | ‘ I said ‘ I 'm making a citizen 's arrest ’ and , with the help of Martin and another guy , Peter Ryan , I took them round the corner to Hope Street police station . ’ |