Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play .
2 Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play .
3 An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it .
4 Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal .
5 ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’
6 Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever .
7 However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off .
8 Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand .
9 As soon as they sight a predator approaching , they swiftly dart round to the far side of a tree-trunk before performing the rigid ‘ statue ’ response .
10 A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant .
11 Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme
12 ‘ I expect to come out of these games with good results , ’ said Atkinson , before warning about hidden pitfalls in the long run in to the finishing line .
13 So , as the other person already occupied part of the left hand bench , he quite naturally went over to the right hand bench and promptly sat down .
14 If only to get on to the practical arrangements . ’
15 So to get back to the serious matter Mr Mayor if I may .
16 However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 .
17 It does n't work for her the mistress of the moment of sudden isolation at not seeing back to the black magician who fantastically juggles luminous hoops in the recto-rectangular hey put my mirror back .
18 Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off
19 As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN .
20 I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs.
21 CROWDS of starving Muslims , mostly women and children , cheered and wept yesterday as a long-delayed United Nations aid convoy loaded with food and medicine finally won through to the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica .
22 Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one .
23 What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ?
24 According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live .
25 Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ .
26 But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East .
27 The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing .
28 But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley .
29 ‘ Jansher was warned by the players ’ chairman , Phil Whitlock , for not turning up to the official function at the Singapore Open last month .
30 The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton .
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