Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 2 | For the latest , we 're going over live to the meeting , and our reporter Nick Clark . |
| 3 | The coffee table had taken flight to one side of the room , and two chairs had been drawn up close to the fireplace with their backs to the chesterfield . |
| 4 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |
| 5 | Well , we are going back now to the days of the hand joiner 's shop , when mouldings were scribed ( not routered ! ) and tenons cut with the rip saw . |
| 6 | These Regions have had a declared policy to extend their supply area with SCHEMES identified as Gas Gathering , Rural Gasification or Village Infill , but until recent years most infill work has tended to be carried out close to the gas supply area , with only occasional forays outside these localities . |
| 7 | But our cheque wo n't be handed over meekly to the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 8 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 9 | The chief specification is that corresponding entries from OED and the Supplement should be able to be called up together to the screen or other outputting device . |
| 10 | Flowering shoots of winter jasmine , J. nudiflorum , should be cut back to within two or three buds from the main stem , while the oldest stems on honeysuckle should be cut back close to the base . |
| 11 | erm That seems to me a little bit odd that that has to be put on twice to the erm exclusion of other programmes . |
| 12 | Where it occurs much lower down a recovery is unlikely , and the accident should be put down either to the failure to maintain a safe airspeed at low altitudes , or to bad planning leading to a situation from which a crash is almost unavoidable . |
| 13 | After the details have been displayed , you will be taken back immediately to the option prompt . |
| 14 | The Russians were pushed back northwards to the Stanovoi mountains , where the frontier fixed in 1689 by the Treaty of Nerchinsk was recognized until the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | There were people , people everywhere — huddled inside doorways trying to keep dry , crowding into the small , old-fashioned shops , and buying fruit and vegetables at bargain prices from the swarthy hawkers whose barrows were drawn up close to the kerb . |
| 16 | It would seem that these few packets were handed out mainly to the neighbours of the field workers rather than to those villagers who actually needed the ORS . |
| 17 | The crowds of buyers , who apparently did not share their view , were moving out now to the lawn where the sale was due to begin in a large marquee . |
| 18 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 19 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 20 | The survey added greatly to our knowledge of the glacial deposits , which were laid down close to the southern limit of ice advance during the Anglian Stage . |
| 21 | The idea of being sent out again to the Middle East lost what little charm it had left . |
| 22 | Clearly , the predisposition of the parents is carried down partially to the children . |
| 23 | The encoder is set to generate a position pulse corresponding to a 0° switching angle and this pulse is fed back directly to the phase excitation circuit , when the appropriate position is reached during the first step . |
| 24 | High on the wall of my room , near the open window , waiting for the lights to come on , a gecko is clinging on hopefully to the knobbly plaster . |
| 25 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
| 26 | Though the Reformation brought an end to Grandison 's college , the medieval college houses were allowed to remain , and the collegiate church , to which a magnificent parish aisle had recently been added , was given over completely to the people of the town . |
| 27 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 28 | I was walking through here to the office . |
| 29 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 30 | Saturday at sundown it was sold back again to the Reichmanns . |