Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |
| 2 | Kate had somehow knocked over her cup , and tea spilled on to the tray , splashing her skirt . |
| 3 | Where the plaintiff claims continuing loss the judge has to decide the issue by reference to interest on the loss calculated up to the date of payment in . |
| 4 | As no form of updating had taken place the room was in need of considerable physical repair … much of the stock dated back to the school 's opening and was therefore unsuitable for the pupils and curriculum of today . |
| 5 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 6 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 7 | or the State , everything was in effect handed over to the UndergrounD Group , under a new name . |
| 8 | Rounding a bend , she saw Water Gypsy tied up to the bank . |
| 9 | They arrived in July 1547 and took the castle , after a brief siege featuring a spectacular air-battle in which the outer walls were battered by artillery hoisted on to the church steeple of St Salvator 's College and the abbey walls ; the lairds disappeared into prison in France , and Knox and others went to the galleys . |
| 10 | A car pulled up to the fence . |
| 11 | Although the wall was originally orange , a brown shadow in the shape of a fan stretched up to the ceiling above the frying pans on the hob . |
| 12 | The car swept up to the front of the house and Alain stopped . |
| 13 | As she was about to hand a cup to another air man , Peggy happened to jostle her arm and the tea sprayed on to the counter , splashing the man on the other side . |
| 14 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 15 | Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table . |
| 16 | The former enshrines the major cavity properties : E1 is the incident field amplitude ( normally zero in a laser ) ; t is the time for light to propagate from the cell output around to the input , equal to ( " : - — L ) /c ; 8 is the cavity mistuning , whose physical significance is best examined for the empty cavity , in steady state , whence and thus The cavity field thus has resonances spaced at intervals of in 8 , which are very sharp if R is close to unity ( high-finesse resonator ) . |
| 17 | The first defendant passed on to the plaintiff this indication of interest by Mr. Perot . |
| 18 | Out of that curve , Doohan grabs another gear and the warbling exhaust note signals that the rear tyre is still scrabbling for grip as he shifts up again and aims at the daunting , sixth gear left on to the back straight . |
| 19 | The Association faced up to the conflict , but lost one of its founder members in the process . |
| 20 | The fine masonry extended up to the top of the ground floor , but it seems likely that the upper floors — however many there were — were usually made of mudbricks . |
| 21 | There were the usual grumbles , but they faded instantly as the ambulance backed up to the entrance , doors already opening . |
| 22 | The juggernaut bucked and the poet held on to the side to prevent himself being thrown around . |
| 23 | The rest of the sack matched up to the quality of manufacture and finish of the back system — as it should do at the price . |
| 24 | The excess will be deducted from the loss and then payment made up to the policy limit . |
| 25 | The latest figures from the Home Office show that the largest of the 60 seizures of the drug made up to the end of June this year was 40 grammes in Nottingham . |
| 26 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 27 | York skyline painted on to the car by artist Paula MacArthur . |
| 28 | If I could draw members attention to the supplementary papers erm and it 's page three which is the second report and it will become I will make it clear with regards to the er linking up of the two reports , both museums and Essex committee linked up to the museum registration . |
| 29 | The rate for waggoning increased and in a few years up to about 11/ per 100 kibbles was paid for ore brought out to the Bonsor Mill . |
| 30 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |