Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 2 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 3 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 4 | I sidle up to the older cop . |
| 5 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 6 | At the top of the dry valley I scramble down to the green path , following the old hedge of thorns and elders , pointing the way , beckoning me onwards as I descend the gently curving path down the rolling hillside . |
| 7 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 8 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 9 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 10 | I point out to the hon. Gentleman that the 1981 Act is now steadily being made more effective , that more resources are being made available every year and that parents are becoming more and more aware of their rights under that Act . |
| 11 | I point out to the hon. Member for Ogmore that the Sunday trading laws could be suspended only by primary legislation . |
| 12 | I turn back to the white man 's earnest justification and go and make a cup of tea . |
| 13 | As the sea is calm I turn in to a narrow cleft on the headland , cutting the engine and gliding in between the faces of grey rock to let my passengers get the flavour of the sights and sounds of a Shetland geo . |
| 14 | I du n no what to do now so I go up to the big electric sign board and have a look at it . |
| 15 | ‘ I go round to the three people for whom I 'm a key worker . |
| 16 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |
| 17 | If I go back to the diagonal layer , quite often I get a question . |
| 18 | So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe . |
| 19 | As I burst on to the empty platform , the train starts to pull away . |
| 20 | I think back to the scented summer night |
| 21 | Before I move on to a fuller description of helicopter radios , let's summarise the above : |
| 22 | If things go badly , I move on to the next thing and do n't beat myself up |
| 23 | It is carried against , and so I come back to the new erm section being proposed by Professor on anti-semitism and concurred by the convenor , Dr , and put it to the assembly . |
| 24 | When I reach out to the big mug of coffee on the table , it is cold , and I wonder how long I 've been asleep . |
| 25 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 26 | Ophiolimna bairdi can easily be distinguished from O. lineata by a number of features : the disk is covered with granules , not spinelets ; which extend on to the oral frame ; the oral shield is a large triangle and the oral papillae have a different shape and arrangement ( see p. 60 ) |
| 27 | The disk is round covered with a dense coating of low hemispherical granules which extend on to the ventral interradial area ; disk diameter is 4 mm . |
| 28 | From Dr Jaffery 's rooftop you could look out , past the anonymous walls which face on to the Old Delhi lanes , and see into the shady courtyards and the gardens which form the real heart of the Old City . |
| 29 | These constraints lead decision-makers to deviate considerably from the comprehensive rationality model , but in six ways which add up to a positive theory of decision-making . |
| 30 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |