Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 2 | Eye-witnesses told how eight police vans and three patrol cars swept up to a house in the street , flooding the area with police officers . |
| 3 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 4 | Footsteps on a wood floor ; then silence as the feet stepped on to a rug . |
| 5 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |
| 6 | However , there is a major problem with the model for real textual data : all references are between nodes mapped statically to a number of data pages with no scope for dynamic variation of unit size in the source and target objects . |
| 7 | This committee was composed of representatives of producers , employees and consumers ; it too , however , could not be much of a check on High Authority action if the two bodies moved on to a collision course — something , in fact , which never occurred . |
| 8 | The trial is of national importance if it can be proved that seriously injured patients taken directly to a trauma unit have a better chance of survival , the policy is likely to be adopted in other parts of the country . |
| 9 | Staff hung out of the chemists Strickland and Holt , cheering and waving ; men scrambled on to a ledge above the Peter Dominic off-licence ; boys climbed on to the top of bus shelters . |
| 10 | Police moved on to a housing estate in St Mellons , Cardiff , after a five-day surveillance operation . |
| 11 | Lightweight stores sold easily to a top of £27.60 for Duroc crosses exhibited by a Loughgall farmer ( 20k 138p per kilo ) . |
| 12 | Wages edged up to an average of £19.58 , and the bank rate came down to 6 per cent , but mortgages went up from 6 to 6&1/4% . |
| 13 | What seems to have fascinated Picasso about Cézanne 's figure studies and portraits , besides his obvious interest in their structural formal properties , is the complete disregard of details , which is at times extended even to a disregard of the individual features of the face . |
| 14 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 15 | Food and medicines loaded on to a coach at Kettering in Northamptonshire . |