Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 2 | During the operation , I 'm going to come back to the door in a minute , during the operation which gun were you carrying ? |
| 3 | She longed to give in to the desire in his eyes and her own body 's urging . |
| 4 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 5 | Inside is a plastic platform which is perforated to allow liquids to seep through to the tank in the bottom . |
| 6 | Barry , assistant manager at Perry 's brasserie in Beaumont Street , was forced to drive back to the bar in his own car and ordered to open the safe . |
| 7 | So when he Shah left his office to drive back to the residence in the palace ground , Afgshar rushed towards him . |
| 8 | After several years , when they have grown to full size , they start to swim back to the rivers in order to spawn . |
| 9 | I 'd like to go back to the minutes in terms of matters arising which do n't arise under the the agenda items . |
| 10 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 11 | I was glad I had made arrangements with a City Temple friend to go back to the flat in Southwark to collect the last of my wanted books etc . |
| 12 | To get to them you need to go back to the fork in the road from Tardets where before you turned left , and this time take the right fork , for the village of Larrau and the Col d'Erroymendi ( yet another road into Spain , though one that is open generally for no more than five months in the year — these are snowy parts ) . |
| 13 | A full-length musical based on the biblical story of Job is about to burst on to the stage in York . |
| 14 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 15 | In other words , to refer back to the discussion in the previous section , an understanding of theory is needed for evaluation . |
| 16 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |
| 17 | In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to . |
| 18 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 19 | She was having to face up to the confusion in her : that she was married to a man she loved but there was this ‘ Boy-in-the-box ’ . ’ |
| 20 | I have listened in vain to hear anyone , in any political party , who has been courageous enough to face up to the crisis in the social services . |
| 21 | I think we have to face up to the fact in the Labour party that quotas , that positive discrimination are essentially clumsy . |
| 22 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 23 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 24 | Will he confirm that it is our top priority to get back to the basics in education and to sweep away the leftist progressive teaching methods that , having been put to the test , have failed ? |
| 25 | Now what was required then was that although the job was in a rush , the management had to telephone down to the Admiralty in Bath to get the appropriate sanction you know , to , to accept the cylinder with the er bigger gauge bore . |
| 26 | ‘ Harry had a chip shop in Bradford and it was because of his wife 's health that he decided to move out to the Dales in 1928 , ’ said Richard Richardson , Harry Ramsden 's marketing director . |
| 27 | We 've got to rush back to the studio in Abingdon now . |
| 28 | And it is her intuition that she is dependent on for finding just the right thing to muse about to the class in front of her . |