Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 2 | to wind and rain whip in to the lonely , misplaced town . |
| 3 | Some aspects of open enrolment go back to the 1980 Education Act . |
| 4 | Plans to build a display hangar on the NAM site go back to the early 1980s . |
| 5 | Buildings on the site go back to the eleventh-century , when the town hall , the Broletto Vecchio , of the free city of Milan stood here . |
| 6 | In fact , the origins of the Geneva conference go back to the international chemistry conference held in Paris in 1889 . |
| 7 | As the model rolls from inverted to normal flight , move the throttle stick back to the normal position . |
| 8 | Emma took us all on a bumpy buggy ride over to the second stage , until it was confiscated by security . |
| 9 | The moves for an extended system of university education reach back to the 18405 when it was aimed at providing more qualified candidates for Anglican ordination , but it was very soon transformed into a more lay-oriented mission . |
| 10 | If this is the case go on to the next step . |
| 11 | A senescent safecracker and an odd kid break in to the same house at the same time : the safecracker for cash , the kid to apple-pie the beds , read the mail and raid the fridge . |
| 12 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 13 | The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill . |
| 14 | From there , some fibres continue to the superior olivary body on the same side of the brain stem as the stimulated ear but the majority cross over to the olivary body on the opposite side of the brain stem . |
| 15 | ‘ The separate elements of the database add up to the essential spatial framework , in a co-ordinated and computerized format , for carrying out academic , commercial and policy-oriented studies in one of Europe 's fastest growing regions ’ ( Shepherd and Conway , 1988 , p. 14 ) . |
| 16 | Ranulf watched his master and the friar go over to the far side of the room . |
| 17 | The foothills of the Annulii march off to the distant peaks that tower dramatically into the clouds . |
| 18 | The roots of parental involvement go back to the 1950s when primary schools began to have an identity of their own , an identity far removed from the old all-age elementary schools of pre-war years . |