Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant . |
| 2 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 3 | The remainder either stayed at home or moved voluntarily to a relative , neighbour , or friend . |
| 4 | They can be massaged into the skin , or dropped on to a cloth or pillow to be inhaled . |
| 5 | It is essential to keep good records to pursue or respond effectively to a claim , a matter which is covered in detail in chapter 7 . |
| 6 | We climbed the rickety wooden stairs that led up to a balcony ; as we did so , one of the eunuchs blew a kiss at me and the others burst out laughing . |
| 7 | Ruth asked as they strolled through the formal gardens towards a flight of stone steps that led up to a forest of dense green pine trees offering shade and coolness . |
| 8 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when they crossed a run that led upwards to a hole , he could hear the rain outside , still falling in the night . |
| 10 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
| 11 | I can not imagine a more uplifting experience than listening through to a sequence of Brahms 's chamber compositions such as if offered here . |
| 12 | A soft-faced old man was framed by the double doors that opened on to a room of unparalleled luxury . |
| 13 | But sexual and intellectual promiscuity — the frequent substitution of one partner , idea or belief for another — involves a constant deferral of meaning that leads inevitably to a distrust of language and an uneasiness with regard to self-definition . |
| 14 | ‘ About our business and the Lord Owen 's , ’ said Julian , with a vicious snap that belonged rather to a wife than a daughter , ‘ and worse pressed than we are , very likely . |
| 15 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 16 | A Malaise trap is like an open-sided tent , made of fine netting , with a pitched roof that rises obliquely to a peak at one end . |
| 17 | It seemed curious to be describing such ice-cold seas while sitting in a palm-thatched Bahamian beach café that looked on to a shoreline where pelicans perched under the diamond-hard sun . |
| 18 | There was a silence ; then a growing murmur , that grew rapidly to a hubbub of comment and argument around Eachuinn Odhar , while he had his horn refilled to ease his throat and sat back , ears alert for the tone of the reaction . |
| 19 | Her leg cracked against a trailer bar that sloped back to a set of wheels . |
| 20 | He gestured across the lawn that ran down to a stream and then up again to his own cottage , which Thomas had given him as a wedding present . |
| 21 | Sgr A West is smaller ( 2pc ) , its radiation is largely thermal , and it sits within a highly turbulent circumnuclear disk of molecules that extends out to a distance of 7pc from the nucleus . |
| 22 | that represent home to a boy |
| 23 | There is natural brick on the walls of their long family sitting room , which has open fireplaces and a children 's ‘ playspace ’ alongside the patio doors that lead out to a barbecue area and pool . |
| 24 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 25 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 26 | The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’ |
| 27 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 28 | PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format : |
| 29 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 30 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |