Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 2 | Three of them heaved the bulk over on to the high rocks and after a few more buckets of water , they stood back to inspect it further . |
| 3 | It was a time of speculative fever burning over western Europe , and debt holders not only rushed to exchange , many of them quickly put the stock back on to a soaring market where others rushed to take it up . |
| 4 | The first time that the door opened and spilled yellow light out on to the dark afternoon street , it was the parson making a bid for freedom . |
| 5 | He emptied his mind , he walked like an automaton up on to the green ride , seeing at the end of it the cameo of stacked meadows , segments of wood , a church tower . |
| 6 | A shallow ramp , suitable for transporting wheelbarrows , will be provided from the waste land south of the Brunstane Bowling Green up on to the old railway embankment . |
| 7 | Slowly , with her fists clenched tightly and her lips pursed , she put one foot and then the other out on to the first stepping-stone . |
| 8 | One possibility being considered is for solar power to be used to pump downstream water back up to the main reservoir , so restoring the head of water needed to generate hydro-electric power . |
| 9 | Ma stretches her lips and lowers her head back on to the headrest . |
| 10 | Faced with a mounting burden of debt , Edward II tried to shift the burden of support back on to the local communities . |
| 11 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
| 12 | Turn the rice out on to a cutting board . |
| 13 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 14 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 15 | It was a fine summer morning when they left and , avoiding the roads as much as possible , made their way up on to the high muirs on the Lanarkshire/Ayrshire boundary , intending to travel direct towards Priesthill and hoping to take John Browne by surprise . |
| 16 | ‘ Are n't we going to have something to eat ? ’ she asked as she caught up with him , trying to steer the conversation back on to a safe subject . |
| 17 | Whenever he had the chance he got the whole school out on to the Common . |
| 18 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |