Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 2 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 3 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 4 | The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band . |
| 5 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 6 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 7 | Eight minutes later it was 2–0 when Des Aitcheson , scoring from close range after Neil Fullerton 's near post flick , had been brilliantly turned on to a post by the visiting goalkeeper . |
| 8 | Starting from the simplest and most chaste of forms , rooted in a combination of pioneering vernacular and colonial buildings , the American station swiftly moved on to a riot of revivalist and hybrid styles in a complex process of architectural grafting which mirrored the increasingly diverse origins of its immigrant population . |
| 9 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 10 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 11 | All countries possess an armoury of policy weapons that together add up to a policy regime . |
| 12 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 13 | I had the epidural injection in the base of my spine and then I was all rigged up to a machine so the nurses could monitor the baby 's movements . |
| 14 | As Crick points out , however , the right idea can only fit in to a mind which is trained , and predisposed to accept that idea . |
| 15 | She was about to turn to him and demand to be taken back when he suddenly swung on to a track she had not seen from the distance . |
| 16 | Reimbursement of additional hotel and travelling expenses necessarily incurred up to a maximum of £300 to reach the booked destination in the event of the Insured Person arriving at the U.K. departure point too late to commence the booked holiday as a result of the failure of public transport services or due to an accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 17 | The likelihood is that St Helens will have had their minds wonderfully concentrated by the experience and should win the replay at Wakefield Trinity tonight to go through to a meeting with Oldham in the quarter-finals on Sunday . |
| 18 | This was the furtiveness that could become fear : not owning up to a language he spoke , smuggling sausages into his bedroom , pretending he was out , plaguing the porters for a letter from his wife when he knew she did n't know where he was . |
| 19 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 20 | Just piss off to a nightclub , dear , come back in the wee small hours . |
| 21 | French windows stood open leading on to a strip of highly polished , red tiled terrace . |
| 22 | We could easily move on to a project exploring other aspects of Victorian England . |
| 23 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 24 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 25 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , you 're not tied down to a commitment of any sort , ’ she pointed out in a dry tone . |
| 27 | But this this nervous thing is a very primitive instinct and I 'm just coming up to a word I never can pronounce so you 're going to have to help me with this one . |
| 28 | When it finally pulls in to a kerb up a side street a hundred yards away , a voice supplies commentary from his second-floor window . |
| 29 | Says one critic : ‘ You can not advertise shame , ’ says one critic , ‘ and you can not walk up to a prostitute and say ‘ Hey , you , walk off the streets and join other prostitutes in farming ’ . ’ |
| 30 | It is becoming increasingly popular — why not go along to a meeting near you ? |