Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 2 | Red card and back to the subs ' bench for Jim . |
| 3 | He kept rolling , still hanging on to his weapons , and fell over the front of the Jeep and on to the pavement outside . |
| 4 | Since the causal chain passes through perception and on to the rest of the nervous system , perhaps triggering action , it must become physical again . |
| 5 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 6 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 7 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 8 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 9 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 10 | The oil is getting into the wheel bearings and forcing grease past the oil seal and on to the brake shoes . |
| 11 | A piece of smokeless fuel fell out of the grate and on to the hearth . |
| 12 | Steadying himself , he made his way over the roof and on to the parapet that ran along the side of the building . |
| 13 | All the three turtles shown belong to one species , but differ considerably ; it was upon the existence of such differences that Darwin was to base his theory of natural selection leading to divergence and eventually to the emergence of new species . |
| 14 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 15 | She struggled to free herself , and rolled out of the car and on to the ground . |
| 16 | And that is against the advice of Government in its circular advice to the coal industry and indeed to the County Council . |
| 17 | Such catalogues were important to scholarship and also to the art market . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , speculation continues that the Greek collector is looking for more aircraft for his collection and is working hard to return one of his Shacks to airworthy condition and back to the UK ! |
| 19 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 20 | Parks did have talent and right to the end , which came after he had shot his final roll on a Town & Country sitting , he never , ever dressed like a stockbroker . |
| 21 | Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other . |
| 22 | In the second bay starting from the western end , northern side and up to the gangway , was H. Webb 's black gang , so called because everything they dealt with was black in colour . |
| 23 | Tug slumped into a chair and looked first to one side and then to the other . |
| 24 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 25 | Good views can be had over the loch and over to the Merrick , at 2,770′ the highest peak in the Southern Uplands . |
| 26 | Only five minutes walk from central Amalfi and close to the seafront this hotel is on a corner site of the main coast road and boasts an intriguing past . |
| 27 | The erosive activity of waves is partly due to the effect of impacts of water against the coast and partly to the action of stones and boulders moved by the waves . |
| 28 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 29 | He proceeded down the wooden stairs and Athelstan went along the gallery and up to the garret . |
| 30 | We follow his transition from international sprinter to club coach and then to the mastermind of an élite group of world-class sprinters — Angella Taylor-Issajenko , Tony Sharpe , Mark McCoy and Desai Williams were all medal-winners with Ben Johnson in the Commonwealth Games of 1982 . |