Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 3 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 4 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 5 | This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) . |
| 6 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 7 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 8 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 9 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 10 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 11 | A gold ring from the port of Mochlos shows a goddess sailing on a boat with a shrine apparently built on to the afterdeck conveying a portable shrine from one coastal site to another . |
| 12 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 13 | Here the eye is naturally drawn down to the urn at the end of the vista . |
| 14 | Abel suddenly bent down to the letterbox and called through , ‘ Grandfather Gebler , it s me — Abel . |
| 15 | The air was thick with smoke and he was not offered dinner afterwards , merely driven back to the organizer 's home many miles away . |
| 16 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 17 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 18 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 19 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 20 | The San Giorgio case is also of interest for present purposes in that it accepts that Community law does not prevent a national legal system from disallowing repayment of charges where to do so would entail unjust enrichment of the recipient , in particular where the charges have been incorporated into the price of goods and so passed on to the purchaser . |
| 21 | Lewis suddenly wandered on to the stage and started playing , hotly pursued by the band , who had not been tipped off . |
| 22 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |
| 23 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 24 | At the same time the press had been tipped off that the Health Minister was leaving the country on holiday from Heathrow and half a dozen photographers had literally chased on to the runway to photograph him . |
| 25 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 26 | One effect of this strategy was to create a large number of internal refugees — some reports estimating that some 150,000 Cambodians were displaced during 1990 , either by being forcibly moved in to the interior by SOC troops , or by fleeing from Khmer Rouge attack . |
| 27 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 28 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 29 | ‘ Even though PDAG is not to be abolished until next April , it seems members have already given in to the Tories . |
| 30 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |