Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Daleks and Mechonoids fight a mutual battle of annihilation , the humans escape down a rope to the jungle below , apparently losing Steven Taylor in the hasty retreat . |
| 2 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 3 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 4 | On the left the slope broke off and fell down a cliff to the river . " |
| 5 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 6 | Her hand slid along a wall to a light switch . |
| 7 | Formalities did not take long , and in no time they were riding upwards in the lift and then walking along a corridor to the door of Ven 's suite . |
| 8 | Anyway , he sees this fat cunt with some of his mates with some tea — and he 's moved along a bit to the end and he 's pissing down and out through the open bit and its all blowing down on these cunts ’ heads and into their |
| 9 | They tied up in a backwater under a sky black as old blood , and walked along a pontoon to the apron of an enormous dock . |
| 10 | He was there to hand over a cheque to the charity . |
| 11 | The place was empty , but for a cloak-shrouded figure bent over a rosary to the right of the door , and a man sitting alone in the front row . |
| 12 | They have the ability to determine a person 's needs and thereafter hand over a solution to the problem in terms of their own definition . |
| 13 | Go over a fence to the left of the house to a burn at the back . |
| 14 | THE Mayor of Middlesbrough , Coun Eddie Bolland , supported pedal power when he handed over a tandem to a group helping blind and partially-sighted people take part in cycling and sport . |
| 15 | The spokeswoman said the detectives will hand over a file to the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 16 | The picture sparked off a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority which upheld the objection saying the ad was ‘ sexually explicit ’ . |
| 17 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
| 18 | If you opt for the minimum , contracted out personal pension , you will pay the full-rate of national insurance contributions , and the government will pass on a rebate to the firm providing the pension ( a bank , a building society , an insurance company , or a unit trust ) . |
| 19 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 20 | The rudder trim started at two thirds to the right and in level flight , with the power set at 24 ’ , manifold 2200 rpm , ended up a quarter to the left . |
| 21 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 22 | Have you built up a debt to the bank ? |
| 23 | The program moves up a level to the assembly file and checks for possible interference between the selected part and other sub-assemblies contained within the assembly . |
| 24 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 25 | On one occasion her piano was dragged up a hillside to the door of an isolation hut , where she sang for five rather surprised soldiers . |
| 26 | She had ladders and broomsticks and poles for the broomsticks and had to climb up a ladder to the top of the roof to get the cobwebs and everything down . |
| 27 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 28 | But a few moments later , in Simon 's cottage , when he pulled up a chair to the fire and gently pressed her down into it , she managed to say , ‘ You — knew … |
| 29 | The emperor , who loathed Bohemian , by bringing the books here , unwittingly set up a monument to the language . |
| 30 | I 'm going to spell out a warning to the aeroplane pilot by making you all into letters . |