Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accompanying letter said how much they enjoyed the tour of Springfields and said Eric could pass on the sticker to his son . |
| 2 | At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , work by Janet Hemingway on anopheline mosquitoes has shown that malathion specific resistance is inherited as a single gene controlling a carboxylesterase enzyme which breaks down the malathion to its monoacid . |
| 3 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 4 | Ellie looked once more down the table to her father , silently praying he would put an end to it , and prevent what was sure to be a bloodbath . |
| 5 | My mast began to do its work immediately , and the electricity from the lightning travelled down the mast to my machine . |
| 6 | ‘ Be sure , ’ said Alexander before the service started , ‘ to turn over the page to my grandfather 's lesson when you have finished yours . ’ |
| 7 | She twirled and turned in delight to show off the uniform to her mother Fran , adding : ‘ I 've already got two school bags one for my front and one for my back . ’ |
| 8 | That is why he manoeuvred frantically , and brilliantly , to fend off the challenge to his party leadership last month . |
| 9 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 10 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 11 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 12 | The woman would pull up the sheet to her neck . |
| 13 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 14 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |
| 15 | Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased . |
| 16 | She rolled up the sleeve to her elbow , the fingers of her right hand brushing her left forearm as she did so . |
| 17 | I broke from them , and ran back up the slope to my mother 's house . |
| 18 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 19 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 20 | But there was one fault in the design which did not escape the sharp eyes of the Thrush Green neighbours , and John Lovell was one who pointed out the weakness to his brother-in-law . |
| 21 | Sun put out the wire to its community describing Sparc as ‘ an open evolutionary process … the only cooperatively-developed , royalty-free architecture in the world . ’ |
| 22 | It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it . |
| 23 | She was terrified that if she poured out the tale to her husband now , he would be filled with doubts as to the extent of her previous involvement with Davis . |