Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 2 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 3 | After that , the manager went through the procedure adopted : a telephone call to the reference number cited ; verification of credit card ; verification of driving licence ; verification of home address ( the last three usually completed within ten minutes or so on the International Information Computer ) ; preparation , presentation , and signing of the contract ( including appropriate insurance clauses ) ; then , paperwork now completed , the car brought round to the outer forecourt , with an assistant to give the client a quick run-over of the controls , and to hand over the keys . |
| 4 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 5 | Here , everyone had been friendly , and the difference carried through to the whole club . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm surprised you have n't had the window-frame shipped off to the Black Museum . ’ |
| 7 | From behind the church a ploughed field slanted up to the uncompromising skyline . |
| 8 | Alternatively they may be filled with water made up to the appropriate strength of degreaser or caustic cleaner and heated to boiling point . |
| 9 | The boarding annexe at Burleigh was an unlovely square built on to the main house in the nineteen-twenties-it was the cause , in fact , of the original owner going bankrupt and being forced to forsake the licensed trade . |
| 10 | It will be replaced either by Trafalgar Day in October or an extra day tacked on to the existing August Bank Holiday . |
| 11 | He gave a thumbs-up sign then replaced it and manoeuvred his wheelchair round behind his desk where he tapped his security code into the IBM computer linked up to the central data bank elsewhere in the building . |
| 12 | It can therefore be taught to circle if ( a ) the shepherd first makes the dog run round to the other side of the flock , and then ( b ) moves himself and repeats the exercise . |
| 13 | Sin , pain and death were linked together ; all three belonged inescapably to our transitory existence in an imperfect world , and each link in the chain led on to the next one . |
| 14 | I had never heard Pike sing in real life , so I could n't tell how this spirit voice matched up to the real one . |
| 15 | Thérèse called out to the wooden spoon clotted with Dijon mustard . |
| 16 | This onslaught from Bush , together with intensifying questioning of Perot 's attitude to , and respect for , civil liberties , saw the would-be independent candidate driven on to the defensive towards the end of the month . |
| 17 | At the time of division , the two halves of the city were very different ; the Soviet east hung on to the imperial Prussian centre , the West acquired the western shopping and residential areas . |
| 18 | To help users , BOC has made available unaudited schedules that show past published information restated on to the new basis . |
| 19 | The battered husband returns to be told and " " reconforté " " , " comforted " , by the tale of the treatment meted out to the would-be seducer . |
| 20 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 21 | ‘ in the wreck of human affairs , indeed , God often makes His truth appear ; and causes His Gospel , like a plank thrown out to the perishing mariner , to be properly known and prized . ’ |
| 22 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |