Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb base] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking , then , the powers and duties of parents and guardians relate not to property , but to the care and custody of the infant 's person . |
| 2 | Most of the shore and land birds breeding in the Falklands are resident species : the ‘ true ’ seabirds like albatrosses , petrels and penguins move out to sea to largely unknown destinations during the winter . |
| 3 | During the summer breeding gulls , skuas , terns and cormorants feed close to land ; the rest range widely over the ocean , browsing at or close to the surface in single-species or mixed flocks . |
| 4 | As some of the old Orkney words and expressions fall in to disuse , links in the valuable heritage that thurls us to our Viking ancestry are broken . |
| 5 | She 's planning to take a holiday abroad later on , after John and Julie go back to school . |