Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way to see plenty of birds at close range is to attract them in to your own garden . |
| 2 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 3 | Each sex continued to use its original language and to pass it on to their same-sex offspring . |
| 4 | However , once at the pinnacle of his ambition , his only aim could be to preserve his complete control of the Romanian Party and State , and to pass it on to his own chosen successor . |
| 5 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm more inclined to put it down to your Sagittarian impetuosity and clumsiness . ’ |
| 7 | Well it was , I was just trying to persuade it back to its normal cage when the , like , everywhere . |
| 8 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 9 | Boilies actually encouraged the carp to suck them back to their pharyngeal teeth in order to crush them ; this in turn ensured that the large hook entered well into their mouths . |
| 10 | ‘ Cost me nigh on that again to restore it back to its original beauty , but it was worth it . |
| 11 | ‘ It looked pretty derelict when I bought it but the quality of materials and craftsmanship in those days was superb and I was able to restore it back to its original condition , apart from a few new components . ’ |
| 12 | Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993 . |
| 13 | These are sent to patients with a request to take them along to their general practitioner within 10 days . |
| 14 | The obvious alternative is to take them along to your local ‘ paper igloo ’ ( a blue bin like a postbox , usually alongside bottle banks ) for recycling . |
| 15 | And the changing of attitude , important as it is when staying where you are , is also just as important if God is going to move you on to something new . |
| 16 | I ought to take you back to your own room . ’ |
| 17 | Michele met her startled glance and explained calmly , ‘ I wanted to make love to you , and I did n't fancy the idea of having to take you back to your own room in the middle of the night to save Rosa 's tender susceptibilities . ’ |
| 18 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 19 | Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth . |
| 20 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 21 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 22 | A MOTHER fighting for custody of her two young sons has been ordered to hand them back to her estranged American husband from whom she fled a month ago . |
| 23 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 24 | Jay had asked her over to show her off to her four oldest friends . |
| 25 | She thought for several moments , then twisted his words in an effort to pin him down to something definite . |
| 26 | Remind me to make it up to you some time … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I also have to accept that maybe I 'm not that versatile , so I have to make sure that I 'm in the right situation to show myself off to my best advantage . |