Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisation required to travel to the clinic and to sustain the project through to conclusion proved too much . |
| 2 | The idea , by the way is to bite the sleeve , though a helicopter 's on hand to whisk the criminal off to hospital if the dog gets carried away . |
| 3 | My l Lord Mayor , I move , that the item be referred to the Housing and Environmental Protection Committee under standing order A twenty three for consideration and a decision and that the right to defer the matter back to Council be removed . |
| 4 | I move that the item be referred to the Transportation and Highways Engineering Sub-Committee under standing order A twenty three for consideration and the decision and that the right to defer the matter back to Committee or and Council be removed . |
| 5 | Three-putts at the disastrous 11th allowed Knebworth , who had beaten Essex colleagues Rochford Hundred 10 and 8 in the fourth round , to pull the score back to all-square with a six . |
| 6 | Both had their origin in a Working Document presented by the United Kingdom delegation and designed to apply the Convention only to evidence ‘ for use in proceedings pending in the State of origin ’ . |
| 7 | If you have to load an application close to breaking point then at least be patient with it . |
| 8 | To put the feat down to ESP is boring , because it simply stops any further enquiry . |
| 9 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 10 | New recruits to keep the militia up to establishment , and to allow longer-serving members to go home , were selected by ballot . |
| 11 | This final requirement makes it far re difficult to keep the list up to date but experience shown that a personalised approach is much more successful than a plain " to the industrial correspondent " . |
| 12 | A long-term solution to the management of huge collections of material is to enter details of all objects and their whereabouts into a computer database and to keep the information up to date thereafter . |
| 13 | You conduct most of the important interviews and interrogations yourself and afterwards you dictate very sketchy accounts which are only just adequate to keep the files up to date . ’ |
| 14 | I ca n't believe anyone would be stupid enough to trail a wire on to power cables and then leave it lying around for someone to touch . ’ |
| 15 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 16 | In the cottage he dumped her none too gently in one of the armchairs before the fire , pausing only to stir the embers back to life before stamping out towards the kitchen . |
| 17 | Mr Clinton 's televised remarks last night were expected to echo themes he raised in a Saturday radio broadcast in which he urged Americans to embrace his programme of economic change and shared sacrifice to lift the country back to prosperity . |
| 18 | I want you to break the news gently to Gran . ’ |
| 19 | Alcock saw this as another opportunity to produce valuable results , but first , he would have to learn the stars down to magnitude eight , over six times fainter than those visible to the naked eye . |
| 20 | The best route to any reconciliation is to pack the kiddies off to Grandma and try to recapture some of the fun you had as a couple before the pressures of parenthood took over . |
| 21 | Apart from confidence in the service , you 'll all want to get the Lab back to work . " |
| 22 | However , the Baltimore was a good aircraft and it needed a direct hit to knock one down and so , despite our damage , I was able to get the aircraft back to base . ’ |
| 23 | Or if you want to leave them with me and then I 'll , I 've got to have a walk up to post office in a bit . |
| 24 | All was not trouble-free , and the line failed its Board of Trade inspection on July 29th , not for any defect of the electrical system , but because the contractor had failed to lay the track properly to gauge . |
| 25 | He tried to steer the conversation back to theory . |
| 26 | Mr Major won a decisive Commons majority for the ratification Bill , despite another Tory rebellion in the year-long battle with his party 's Euro-sceptics to steer the measure through to law . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're Duke Michael 's men , and they 're coming to take the King back to Strelsau for the coronation . ’ |
| 28 | I decided to take the vodka up to Dosh and tell her it was white wine . |
| 29 | I 've been to take the registers there to hill |
| 30 | They have no power to take the children back to school . |