Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 4 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 5 | She knew , however , that her mother could be relied upon to have fastened up the hens before coming up to the Oaks ' farm for the supper , so she settled her fears . |
| 6 | Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity . |
| 7 | The heading was advancing steadily towards the flooded workings and the incipient dangers of holing through to the " house-of-water " were well enough known . |
| 8 | You can express your concerns before heading off to the pop concert . |
| 9 | History is the study of the past using documents and inscriptions as evidence , and historians have recorded and interpreted events from the earliest days of writing up to the present day . |
| 10 | The first two weeks of the course were spent in the classroom on the groundschool phase and then it was into the flying phase with a daylight jet refresher on the Meteors for the pilots before going on to the B.2s . |
| 11 | Other commentators , such as Barnett ( 1986 ) , place a greater emphasis on the interweaving influence of economic decline and political ineptitude that , even in the 1930s , prevented governments from facing up to the constraints imposed by the vested interests of major corporations and trade unions . |
| 12 | They may be retained there for days or weeks before swimming up to the top of the tract and fertilising an egg . |
| 13 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 14 | But erm apologies for going back to the to the discussion er yesterday but it it 's merely just to remind you , picking up the point that Mr Potter 's just made , that that certainly as far as Selby District 's concerned that circumstances have changed very drastically since the situation of ten years ago when the er the structure plan policies were were first drawn up . |
| 15 | He said his wife was encouraging him , but that he realized the difficulties of coming back to the Commons and of the years after the election if we were in office or even more if we were in opposition . |
| 16 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 17 | If so , you need to change those beliefs before moving on to the next step . |
| 18 | One night when his parents were out David returned to the scene ; as expected everything was quiet not even a walker with a dog was passing through , David cautiously approached the old hut , he peered through a crack in the battens before going round to the door which to his surprise was ajar . |
| 19 | Unsuitably dressed and squealing in the nippy air , the girls ran round like chickens before fleeing back to the cars . |
| 20 | Having an extra wash tray to rinse your prints before going back to the dev. time to allow for the stop , etc. would n't go amiss . |
| 21 | But there is a compulsion to adopt one or the other , and whichever course he may take he can not obtain possession of his goods without handing over to the collector either absolutely or conditionally the amount claimed as duty . |
| 22 | Instead of another row with her mother , she had decided that she must get to the bottom of things by going up to the Hall and speaking to Miss Hatherby , and she pedalled as fast as she could . |
| 23 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 24 | Go through each of the stages about twenty times before moving on to the next stage . |
| 25 | He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk . |
| 26 | Hence part of the challenge is to find ways to getting through to the uninitiated so that a much larger proportion of adults have some insight into what mathematics is about . |
| 27 | A land-based board mounted on a turntable device which is used to teach the basics before going on to the water . |
| 28 | Benjamin insisted that we shave , wash and change our linen and doublets before going down to the hall . |
| 29 | Attempts have been made to map these two modes of processing on to the left and right hemispheres respectively . |
| 30 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |