Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 2 | Here it was suggested that the school 's investment in areas subsequently utilised by the county for its own particular purposes ( including staff development ) became the basis for reacting angrily to the school 's exclusion from the project . |
| 3 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 4 | If you have time , it is worth climbing on to the observation terrace on the site of the tiny Chapel of Holy Mary of Einsiedel which was part of the Theatine Monastery below . |
| 5 | After reciting back to the girl her choice , Joy went back to the counter . |
| 6 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 7 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 8 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 9 | Many of " our " birds are migrants , coming here in winter after breeding far to the north , or nesting here but spending the winter far to the south . |
| 10 | ‘ After referring appreciatively to the work of the honorary medical staff , Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman , said that until any hospital made arrangements with somebody to take money for work done he was certain the medical staff would continue in their honorary capacity . |
| 11 | Mansell , accompanied by his wife Roseanne , was in emotional mood after hopping on to the stage at the International Motor Sports Federation 's annual prize-giving . |
| 12 | After battling through to the end of your course in London , and coming home looking like death warmed up — ’ |
| 13 | The introduction runs : ‘ Christmas is a time for looking forward to the future and remembering the past while remaining keenly aware of the present . ’ |
| 14 | A much more glorious surprise was achieved on Fylde Flyer by Piggott after he and the rest of the Abernant Stakes field had been kept waiting in a cold , damp wind while Snaadee took his own unconscionable time about wandering down to the start . |
| 15 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 16 | The amount of material that came to hand , and the urgency of bringing home to the public what was happening , even if possible stopping what was happening , suggested the form of this book . |
| 17 | It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof . |
| 18 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 19 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 20 | Instead of returning directly to the river , she made a complete tour of the upper storey of the house . |
| 21 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 23 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 24 | If we 're going to stick by the principle outlined above of keeping close to the centre of the action , we 'll need to meet the dragon in the drama , to find out what it 's really like , maybe to persuade it to come and melt an iceberg for drinking water . |
| 25 | The problem was often of living up to the construction of masculinity . |
| 26 | Does n't that sort of bring in to the country and she 's out in the country and she wants to show it to them that she she 's sort of she 's still fashionable . |
| 27 | He urged a continuation of the offensive , recommending that the thrust be resumed on the Right Bank as well , with the object of pushing forward to the line Ouvrage de Thiaumont — Fleury — Fort Souville — Fort Tavannes . |
| 28 | Mungo Stone had the sensation that instead of threading on to the horizon , at any moment the ever-narrowing rails might simply come to a dead end among the trees . |
| 29 | When listening to sermons , speeches , lectures , etc. you can make a point of listening especially to the use of connectives , e.g. " firstly " , " lastly " , " alternatively " , " however " . |
| 30 | He cites the Chinese gesture of bowing down to the ground nine times before an emperor . |