Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 2 | Officially , the bike route ends here ; more experienced cyclists may care to carry on the ascent to the Krimml waterfalls . |
| 3 | Erm but er we 've had one or two people come to us , and report that they 've been mugged , there again we get straight on the phone to the police . |
| 4 | It is not enough to notify the regional chairman or committee members of what 's going on and hope that they will pass on the message to the members and supporters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Apparently the climb to the top of the Glenshane Pass had put paid to their radiator . |
| 9 | My other point relates to developments in Europe , and especially the run-up to the Maastricht intergovernmental conference . |
| 10 | The cut of the assassin 's sword had split it from below the shoulder to the hem . |
| 11 | Walking down the Promenade to the Albion Hotel for luncheon , with Samuel striding ahead like Stonewall Jackson , and Gwendolen having found an apparent soul mate in Lord Beddington , Oliver found himself forced to walk next to Angelina . |
| 12 | Graham waited until the two men were seated in the cafeteria before moving down the platform to the freight car . |
| 13 | He slipped down the door-post to the ground . |
| 14 | Turning from the ugly sight of the old woman 's contorted features , she fled the room , running incontinently down the gallery to the stairs , unaware that Hector , barking excitedly , ran out after her . |
| 15 | These run down the valley to the west of the river through Black Hall , Birks and Grassguards farms to Seathwaite village ( 4.5 miles ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 21 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Virginia ran urgently down the hillside to the car . |
| 24 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 25 | Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ As I padded down the passage to the kitchen , I felt that something was wrong . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She walked behind him down the passage to the living room and watched , smiling , as her brother and her friend hugged each other . |
| 30 | She slid down the broomstick to the ground . |