Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 2 | We do not allow motor cyclists on to the roads without helmets , so why should we allow bowler-hatted men with batons to walk up the highways ? |
| 3 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 4 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 5 | To listen to ‘ a load of shit on shehadat ’ , as Cave called it , was part of the side-business of negotiating ; the Americans would do their best to try to steer their interlocutors back to the subjects at hand . |
| 6 | Steve laughed and directed his eyes back to the papers on the table . |
| 7 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 8 | The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby . |
| 9 | Barbarians , at the Dorman Museum until August 22 , takes visitors back to the days of woad , wonders and warrior queens . |
| 10 | Not far away is a miniature village ; a ‘ Noddy ’ train takes visitors back to the outskirts of Bridlington . |
| 11 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 12 | Attempting unsuccessfully to repeat his 1987 tactics , Ershad had declared a state of emergency on Nov. 27 , 1990 , ordering troops on to the streets of the capital , Dhaka , to restore order [ see p. 37856 ] . |
| 13 | Members should ‘ hitch hike ’ their ideas on to the ideas of others to generate new ideas . |
| 14 | Censorship is a recurring problem in libraries , and there is no issue in librarianship which is more likely to bring libraries on to the pages of the Press , frequently in a damaging and trivial representation of the library profession . |
| 15 | Organised by the same curator as the Bagatelle exhibition , Solange Auzias de Turenne , ‘ Moore Intime ’ features a life-size reconstruction of rooms from Moore 's house , ‘ Hoglands ’ , complete with contents down to the books in the same order as the artist left them in the bookcases , and items from his art collection which served as inspiration for his work . |
| 16 | When they were close enough they threw the ropes up to the men at the front of the crowd , and all of them pushed from behind . |
| 17 | ‘ Primitive ’ people project these hostile feelings on to the spirits of the dead . |
| 18 | He glanced uncomfortably at Andy , who had blond ringlets down to the shoulders of his fringed buckskin jacket . |
| 19 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 20 | Wolfe led his troops up the cliffs on to the Plains of Abraham which commanded Quebec from the west , and so there emerged the unusual sight of infantry lined up in the formal European manner on North American soil . |
| 21 | Pipe the words START and FINISH on to the top left and bottom right squares , and then pipe numbers on to the squares in consecutive order . |
| 22 | A city where the buses stopped at eleven thirty , the pubs ushered their surprised foreign tourists on to the streets at five to eleven , and a meal after that meant Indian or Chinese . |
| 23 | And , like I said , I want to know everything you hear , what anyone 's got to say , from the pimps to the tarts through to the doormen at the clip-joints and the managers of restaurants . |
| 24 | It was a particular damp Autumn , before the advent of land drainage at Strawberry Fields and the snapshot albums shows us ( with all the children again ) wellies up to the knees in mud , lifting the teethes out of the quagmire with forks ! |
| 25 | Get those boys back to the dormitories at once . ’ |