Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 2 | In summer , he used to take friends through the drawing room , out of the French windows and on to the terrace . |
| 3 | Ten minutes to shovel in a plateful of hot stew or fish and chips , and then out again into the back streets and down to the Iron Green . |
| 4 | He wanted to get away from the imagination , away from the vague glamour of medieval things , from reverence for tradition , from mysticism , enthusiasm and gloire ; away from all private visionary insights and down to the plain , measurable , publicly verifiable facts ; and this desire was central to his whole mission as a philosopher and reformer . |
| 5 | These can quickly and easily be removed from their individual compartments and on to the pricking out stage . |
| 6 | The City Waites provocatively flout the ‘ usual ’ conventions of an early music concert as the audience are whisked forward from the Court of Henry VIII to the bawdy ballads of a Drury Lane coffee house , through the idealistic love songs of the 13th-century troubadours and on to the Renaissance . |
| 7 | Thread cord up through rings and corresponding screw-eyes and out to the operational side . |
| 8 | The following topics are being pursued : transfer incomes to the elderly , contrasting the level of support under the Poor Law and the Welfare State ; retirement and the employment of elderly persons in pre-industrial times and up to the present . |
| 9 | The skeleton of the body took shape and when complete would be lifted on to rollers , rolled along the timber , out through the double doors and down to the waiting chassis in the yard by means of skids . |
| 10 | We mounted and rode across the darkened causeway , past the sentry , half-sleeping at the open gates and on to the trackway . |
| 11 | Her gaze went , unbelievingly , from the pink and blue polka-dot material draping the dressing-table to the bright pink carpet patterned with impossible blue roses and on to the royal-blue wallpaper with its equally impossible pink pansies . |