Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . |
| 2 | It spots already compressed files ( ZIP and ARJ and the like , as well as LZH compressed TIF files and so forth ) and just passes them through to the hard disk unaltered . |
| 3 | Which leads us on to the big selling point of these guitars , since this is the first time a production Telecaster has been fitted with a five-way switch . |
| 4 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 5 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
| 6 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 7 | One such trip on Lake Maggiore takes you out to the tiny , but exquisite Borromean islands . |
| 8 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 9 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 10 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 11 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 12 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 13 | Be prepared for a delay while the operator puts you through to the relevant extension . |
| 14 | ‘ Encountering an incompetent telephonist , who puts you through to the wrong extension and/or cuts you off , and/or is n't sufficiently clued-up about who 's who and where to reach them ’ . |
| 15 | After each call to a PI routine , simply pressing the Return key reverts you back to the main menu from which another PI routine may be called or you may exit by entering 0 . |
| 16 | When Jesus receives news that Lazarus is ill , Thomas urges everyone back to the sick man 's home in Bethany , ‘ that we may die with him ’ . |
| 17 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 18 | MTh students who have no previous knowledge of Hebrew do a special one-year course which brings them up to the level necessary for research in Old Testament Studies . |
| 19 | Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles : |
| 20 | Comparing your performance with other companies ' brings you back to the real world . |
| 21 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 22 | The book traces his family history leading up to that midnight stroke and carries it through to the dark period of Mrs Gandhi 's emergency . |
| 23 | Talk of things that may or may not be art brings us on to the ever-popular topic , sex . |
| 24 | And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text . |
| 25 | The White Paper clearly indicates the government 's intention of shifting the balance of provision away from local authorities , and this brings us back to the mixed economy of welfare or welfare pluralism . |
| 26 | Which brings us back to the Southern Effect . |
| 27 | Which brings us back to the Communist Party itself . |
| 28 | That brings us back to the domestic market and the attempts just 18 months ago by supermarket buyers to force lamb prices down to new depths and twist sheep farmers ' tails till their eyes popped . |
| 29 | But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ . |
| 30 | It brings us back to the old calculus of human happiness , back to the rationalisations by which different measures and patterns of investment are justified purely in terms of their direct or indirect benefit to ourselves . |