Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She underlined her potential yesterday in the World Championships here when , though moving up a weight , managed to work her way through to fifth place . |
| 2 | Where a man can become more male and a woman more female by coming together in the full rigors of the fuck … homosexuals , it can be suggested , tend to pass their qualities over to one another , for there is no womb to mirror and return what is most forceful or attractive in each of them . |
| 3 | Thanks to the likes of Pam , Sam , Merlin and Sherlock the robot has worked its way off the shopfloor , out of the realms of science fiction and into hospitals and railway stations , and is about to find its way on to one or two motorway flyovers . |
| 4 | But it too manages to find its way down to southern Africa . |
| 5 | She blinked , desperately trying to shake her thoughts back to some sort of rationality . |
| 6 | Like players , referees should have to work their way up to this level . |
| 7 | The end product could be a jointly-owned network ( unless the Reagan administration decides , instead , to sell its satellites off to private enterprise ) . |
| 8 | Further , if you wished to sell your Opac on to other libraries we would expect to bring Clause 5 into play and acquire a share in any profits resulting from such sales . |
| 9 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 10 | My constituent concludes : ’ The present government wants education standards to be improved but in the case of students , it will only result again in the rich' families being able to afford to send their children on to further education . |
| 11 | One of the purposes of the Belfast study of variation in ( a ) was to project our observations on to past language states in which patterns of heterogeneity must also have existed . |
| 12 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 13 | They 're planning to turn their ground into an all-seater stadium when they can find a three-piece cheap suite enough — the only way they 'll raise the money is to turn their pitch over to growing cabbages and start a fruit-and-veg. stall on Birmingham market selling rotten fruit ! |
| 14 | He had set some water on to boil and rigged up a makeshift affair of branches for her to hang her clothes on to dry . |
| 15 | He now needed to learn his tables up to six times and also be able to do multiplication , addition , subtraction and division , tens and units , shillings and pence and have a basic knowledge of simple weights and lengths . |
| 16 | It took an enormous effort to drag her thoughts on to safer ground . |
| 17 | So you 'd leave the Trust Law in existence , so you would n't call cause a total legal revolution , but you would impose on that a spy of legal requirements which if trusts wish to through Trust Law enhance , they could , but they h all have to bring their agreements up to that minimum ? |
| 18 | Smokers have lower levels of vitamin C. It seems they require 2–300mg per day , up to ten times the daily RDA ( recommended daily amount ) to bring their levels up to normal . |
| 19 | Alliance scored a notable success in Ards , gaining two of the extra three seats in the area , to bring their representation up to six . |
| 20 | Two of those people were then able to bring their score up to nineteen and one managed to answer all twenty questions . |
| 21 | Britain also rejected the proposal , presumably on the grounds that having to bring its standards up to those of the rest of Europe , it would lose out on the lucrative waste disposal trade it presently invites . |
| 22 | Whereas anything else we do , we 've got to fight ou we 've got to claw our way back to that . |
| 23 | However , it is a good discipline to bring your negotiations down to concise statements so that both have the same expectations . |