Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 2 | The disability discrimination provisions of the federal Rehabilitation Act 1973 were modelled upon the sex and race discrimination measures of Title VII in the Civil Rights Act 1964 , but applied only to employment by the federal government , by federal contractors and by employers in federally-financed programmes and activities . |
| 3 | He later moved on to head up the restaurants and banqueting division . |
| 4 | It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars . |
| 5 | But first things first , and while Duncan headed back to town with the VW riding piggyback on his truck , I turned back towards Maidstone and the hospital . |
| 6 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |
| 7 | In the pre-war years , his lack of charisma and poor judgement of men contributed significantly to tension within the establishment . |
| 8 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 9 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |
| 10 | The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine . |
| 11 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |
| 12 | It looked surprised for a moment , and then toppled over and shattered into gravel ( trolls being silicaceous lifeforms , their bodies reverted instantly to stone at the moment of death ) . |
| 13 | HOW many passengers spare a thought when joining their train for a main-line run for the effort which has gone into the preparation of the locomotive , turned out to perfection at the head of the train . |
| 14 | The girl who had shown her in turned back to Folly with the question on her lips . |
| 15 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | Ref Kenneth Leach sent the keeper off and Kearney stepped up to rifle in the penalty for Crewe 's fourth goal . |
| 17 | After over 300 days in space the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov returned safely to earth from the Mir space station on March 25 , his return having been delayed since December . |
| 18 | The result of these negotiations was that BP Coal undertook not to prospect in the area without consultations with LAG and the local community . |
| 19 | The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final . |
| 20 | I dressed and shaved and went down to breakfast under the colonnade . |
| 21 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 22 | They then returned to the Print Room , while guests went in to luncheon in the Great Hall . |
| 23 | While the Collector went off to bed in the middle of the day , Harry made a round of the Residency wheel accompanied by the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , festooned in lengths of chain . |
| 24 | So they all went off to lunch with the mayor , while a messenger was sent to the Registrar of Births , Marriages and Deaths to get the necessary information . |
| 25 | He suggested they went out to dinner on the Saturday at a reputedly excellent roadhouse . |
| 26 | She joined the old South of Scotland Electricity Board in 1976 as a legal assistant — the first female solicitor it had employed — but by 1980 wanted to do something different and went back to university with the company 's blessing ( and a scholarship ) to get an MBA . |
| 27 | and er i it was a an absolute disaster er I , I mean he , he more or less er he went back to bed in the morning . |
| 28 | All through this period the parliamentary liaison officer supplied papers and amendments from the committee stages of the Social Security Bill and took back to parliament from the IPG problem areas suitable for Parliamentary questions and issues for MPs to follow up in other ways . |
| 29 | Discussion of the state led then to consideration of the state/civil society relationship . |
| 30 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |