Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact they had Mala 's and my molecu-prints and other data from our previous visits , and that helped to speed up the process to a slow crawl . |
| 2 | Perhaps not — but there 's precious little risk of that happening these days , and anyway , what happened to speed up the return to ‘ normal ’ after birth ? |
| 3 | Chrissie shouted to him , oi , where are your Beatle boots then ? and started bashing out the rhythm to ‘ Glad All Over ’ on the table . |
| 4 | Then my father decided to hand over the company to the young man . |
| 5 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 6 | It was a fast journey , and accomplished for the most part in silence , although Rohan did point out the entrance to the Château de Biron , as they flashed past . |
| 7 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 8 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 9 | Occasionally you had to spell out the name to tourists to avoid any needless confusion . |
| 10 | From there we had to shuffle down the underground to Davenports Magic Shop , where Paul had been lured in order to buy an ancient Chinese trick , hence the coolie gear . |
| 11 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 12 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 13 | The only saving grace was that the number Quinn had dictated down the line to Zack was still on the Kensington exchange . |
| 14 | It was claimed that Goebbels had raised up the Führer to be the ‘ German god ’ . |
| 15 | I waited until Duncan had winched up the Golf to the road and exchanged the rope for the winch hook which lifted the front of the VW off the ground so it could be towed . |
| 16 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 17 | More important , young McNab had thrown out the challenge to me … he was a hooligan , a no-gooder , a baitz … . |
| 18 | She wanted to find out the extent to which children are aware of differences between spoken and written language , of features that might pass muster in speech but not in the written word . |