Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 2 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 3 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 5 | Go down at night to the Corniche , the old Portuguese part of Muscat , and you are as safe as in your air-conditioned hotel . |
| 6 | This means that you thunder down the approach at Spitfire cruising-speed till , upon reaching a point one minute from the runway , you almost stop the aircraft in mid-air ( sending anyone inside towards the windshield ) , then bring it down at Bonanza-pace to a landing which , with practice , can be as short as 1,100 feet . |
| 7 | Here is a summary of the service we receive from your bank at present , based on an agreement reached with the manager shortly after I took over as clerk to the Parish Council : |
| 8 | Early on June 30 a small group of Army officers led by Lt. Mwamba Luchembe succeeded in broadcasting at regular intervals over 90 minutes a message on national radio saying that the Army had taken over in response to the food price rises . |
| 9 | The former Vice-President , A. K. M. Nurul Islam , protested at the summary manner of his dismissal on Aug. 13 ( see p. 36852 ) , while M. A. Matin resigned on the same day as Deputy Prime Minister and deputy parliamentary leader claiming that he had been passed over in promotion to the post of Prime Minister . |
| 10 | ( And since Samling also has shipping interests , Barama will control the business from the actual felling right through to delivery to the customer . ) |
| 11 | About 1km ( half a mile ) further on , the road has a righthand turn off for entry to the motorway N2 which has emerged from the Seelisberg 9km ( 5½mile ) tunnel to run up the Reuss valley between railway and river for a considerable stretch . |
| 12 | Good tactics , whether planned or not — the more gentry were pinned down here , the fewer were left to muster the Volunteers or ride off with news to the Deputies at Blairgowrie . |
| 13 | He broke off in deference to the Mother Superior , whose faded grey eyes lit with amusement . |
| 14 | The poverty statistics are cited as further support for the view that the elderly are becoming better off in relation to the rest of society . |
| 15 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 16 | On Monday , 6 September 1773 , Boswell and Johnson left the home of Sir Alexander Macdonald and set off on horseback to a staging-post near their embarkation point for Raasay . |
| 17 | Finally , clutching Joie Gould with one hand and a bottle of Scotch in the other , he was sent off by train to a London clinic . |
| 18 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 19 | A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment . |
| 20 | The Qualitas Furnishing Standards Scheme , set up in response to an Office of Fair Trading report in 1990 , was expensive and would need active support if it is to progress . |
| 21 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 22 | As they had hurried their game up in response to the warning , the referee decided that they should go through Kyle and O'Grady . |
| 23 | There are at least 36 million people to be won for Christ , but where are the plans drawn up in response to the challenge and opportunity ? |
| 24 | On Wednesday , facing demands for more detail , Mr Lamont 's deputy , Michael Portillo , and the Treasury said that benefits would only go up in proportion to the RPI . |
| 25 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 26 | Boys sitting on the right-hand side of the bus , for example , would set up in opposition to the boys on the left in order to have someone to mock and to shout joking imprecations at . |
| 27 | But the companies are having to point out once again the tiny fraction of land they take up on relation to the whole . |
| 28 | Conversely , Green MEPs are concerned that the Commission 's paper has been drawn up without reference to the effects that patenting will have on farmers , breeders , consumers and the developing world . |
| 29 | For example , the myth that management development is a politically neutral , objective activity that brings the best talent out for service to the enterprise ( Lawrence , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | She flew back through imagination to the festival at Shadoxhurst , to the dancers , the nonsense words they often chanted as they went through their formations . |