Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to the " in BNC.

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1 Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water .
2 It was just that erm the other varieties around were competing too heavily against it so they thought what 's the point of passing it on to the children .
3 Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside .
4 Spartak defender Victor Onopko smacked Rushie while in the penalty box , but instead of pointing it out to the referee and then playing it by the book , we had David Burrows tearing into an absolutely scandalous tackle and the tone was set .
5 But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing .
6 The Fanatics are the real weapon , the Mob is just a means of deploying them close to the enemy lines .
7 Alexi Sayle says it will be a chance to ride your bike properly instead of taking it down to the chinese takeaway …
8 Instead of taking it out to the back and throwing it in the bin .
9 Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government .
10 They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect .
11 It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball .
12 She was n't heavy and although I 'm no weight-training freak , I lifted her until her backside was balanced on the tailboard and then it was just a matter of rolling her in to the well of the truck , the back of her head making a satisfying thud as she landed .
13 ‘ If we perform adequately in the middle of the field I feel we 've every chance of making it through to the next round . ’
14 If there is anything capable of lifting you up to the gates of heaven , then that is it .
15 The recent work by McAuslan and others ( supra ) in respect of the functioning of the Windscale Inquiry casts further doubt on the fairness of our current practice of leaving it solely to the legislature to determine the form and procedure to be adopted at such inquiries .
16 Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another .
17 For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God .
18 I would then propose to add it to the agenda of the Transport Working Group before bringing it back to the Chief Executive 's Management Group .
19 He had then polished off Duncan 's leftovers before driving him on to the hotel .
20 The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas .
21 If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder .
22 When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person .
23 Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 .
24 The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank .
25 Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night .
26 Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above .
27 In presenting it direct to the kings of Benin they showed good understanding .
28 After that , it took the agents four days to extract a confession from their prisoner on the USS Butte before turning him over to the US Navy for the 13 hour 10 minute flight to Washington , a new solo record for a carrier-based aircraft carrying a second-hand car dealer .
29 Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end .
30 As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list .
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