Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officially , the bike route ends here ; more experienced cyclists may care to carry on the ascent to the Krimml waterfalls . |
| 2 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 3 | To this great current of faith , life in this world was not an end in itself , but rather the prelude to the life to come . |
| 4 | Suddenly the doors to the lounge burst open . |
| 5 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 6 | Apparently the climb to the top of the Glenshane Pass had put paid to their radiator . |
| 7 | The cut of the assassin 's sword had split it from below the shoulder to the hem . |
| 8 | Graham waited until the two men were seated in the cafeteria before moving down the platform to the freight car . |
| 9 | He slipped down the door-post to the ground . |
| 10 | These run down the valley to the west of the river through Black Hall , Birks and Grassguards farms to Seathwaite village ( 4.5 miles ) . |
| 11 | On the east , an open stream ran down the Steine to the sea , an area where the fishermen dried their nets and the inhabitants dumped their refuse ; it was near the outlet that Russell built his house , now the site of the Albion Hotel . |
| 12 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 13 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 14 | What would you say about the fact , the thing that struck me about that , ‘ Councillor Grubb today made first call to the helpline , he said , ‘ a free service ’ which , to me , sounded as though what he actually said down the phone to the helpline was |
| 15 | There was no lack of willing help to carry it down the croft to the cliff edge from where it was carefully lowered to the beach . |
| 16 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |
| 17 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 18 | Virginia ran urgently down the hillside to the car . |
| 19 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 20 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 21 | Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close . |
| 22 | Cranston grabbed the head from the horror-struck beggar 's hand , thrust it back into the bag , stepped over the still prostrate maid and , roaring for Maude , dashed down the passage-way to the door . |
| 23 | ‘ As I padded down the passage to the kitchen , I felt that something was wrong . |
| 24 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 25 | She walked behind him down the passage to the living room and watched , smiling , as her brother and her friend hugged each other . |
| 26 | She slid down the broomstick to the ground . |
| 27 | They say we need more rain because most of the downpour will run down the rivers to the sea . |
| 28 | He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . |
| 29 | He followed her down the hall to the kitchen at the back of the house . |
| 30 | Yellow and brown linoleum stretched down the hall to the kitchen . |