Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] 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 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 . |
| 3 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But there are other recurring fingerprints — melodic motifs , rhythmic patterns , harmonic progressions — the secrets of which are perhaps known only to a handful of Shostakovich 's oldest and closest friends . |
| 9 | As Rosemary Deem makes clear in the article reproduced here , deliberate and formal distinctions between the education of boys and girls have been made until very recently and only brought formally to a halt through the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 12 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you 're not tied down to a commitment of any sort , ’ she pointed out in a dry tone . |
| 14 | The South Metropolitan tramways were not brought completely to a standstill and Sutton depôt kept cars on the road . |
| 15 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 16 | Tork , Station Officer for Tel Aviv , always responded immediately to a summons from that office , cancelled whatever appointments he had . |
| 17 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 18 | The staff was gradually built up to a strength of 460 and , by the end of September 1943 60 planes had been repaired . |
| 19 | Angy always played up to a man … any man . |
| 20 | Once locked on to a heartbeat pattern , they would whizz around like fireflies until they found the precise biosignal that would allow them to explode . |
| 21 | Have you ever walked up to a fox and given it a cuddle without it trying to bite your arms off ? |
| 22 | The French system , though still rather broad-brush in its approach because each individual Commune is usually allocated entirely to a zone , is more closely related to natural handicap than the UK system . |
| 23 | These relationships can be further refined down to an entity or primitive level in the intersection between the two geometric domains . |
| 24 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 25 | Give him one part , now you hold that , I used to hook it on to a roller , tuck it over , pull it through and then you 've got it lined up hooked on to a roller . |
| 26 | It was also carved on to a number of the walls , as if to ward off Evil . |
| 27 | Two miles or so to the south lies the village of Stockerston , now shrunk almost to a hamlet , with its attractive Perpendicular church standing alone on the hillside — a sure sign of some interesting change in village history . |
| 28 | They were unwittingly put through to an SAE in the dealing room next door . |
| 29 | She turns to the visitor , who has now subsided on to a settee . |
| 30 | His indignation frequently boiled over to a point where he thought and demanded that a libel writ should be issued . |