Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better get the kids to school , now … ’ |
| 2 | The homoeopathic remedies with their powerful patterning effect , perhaps along the lines of cellular automata concepts , are visualized as spreading through the body and counteracting the imbalance , so restoring the tissues to harmony and balance . |
| 3 | The church distributed 16,000 copies of the letter which was immediately declared seditious , and the Congress Party secretly sentenced the bishops to death . |
| 4 | Jessica had just seen the boys to bed when the call came . |
| 5 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 6 | He said Alex had already led the girls to safety by the time he arrived to rescue Michael , who had slept through the ordeal . |
| 7 | ‘ At that time I 'm usually taking the children to school . ’ |
| 8 | The irony is that the Dutch , after nearly fifty years , still take the Germans to task , albeit jokingly , for having confiscated thousands of bicycles during the occupation . |
| 9 | In the Driftwood at St Agnes , the pub talk also invariably turns to Morocco , although the tales of waves far outnumber the eulogies to drug and carpet buying . |
| 10 | Romania 's inability to provide quick ball and their fumbling loss of possession often allowed the Scots to counter-attack from deep positions with the same instinctive fluency that has earned them 130 points in four games at Murrayfield this year . |
| 11 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 12 | But there 's more to it than simply committing the documents to microfiche . |
| 13 | Dr Beeching 's famous report of January 1963 then opened the floodgates to closure proposals , battles by campaigners and , invariably , consent by the Conservative Government which , after all , was the architect behind Dr Beeching 's appointment as Chairman charged with reducing losses . |
| 14 | and begin the process and then allow the peasants to kind of take it over , to become involved , to become vocal and to become activated . |
| 15 | Q : I am reminded of Chernechersky , that most fierce and feared of Russian revolutionaries , who was put in prison and then converted the guards to Communism . |
| 16 | The pictures in the book are a useful stimulus because they hint at the disasters and yet allow the children to flesh out the world of the carpenters , the gardeners , the cooks , the soldiers , the furniture makers ( perhaps using small pieces of fabric to indicate who they are ) . |
| 17 | There are also worries that increased public spending not only pushes up government borrowing to fund a high PSBR , but also leads to higher taxes , thereby reducing the incentives to work , save and take risks . |
| 18 | Yet men did die ; they did resist Turks and Italians by battle and by evasion ; they did collect taxes from passers-by , and almost certainly distributed the proceeds to household heads . |
| 19 | That means very significantly raising the barriers to entry — brave publishing ( or even better , brave exploitation of the backlist ) across a very narrow range of titles , powerfully marketed ( and by that I mean television advertising ) to create real volume . |