Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although it is not mentioned in the Act , the Government intended to act as an agent of the Government of India , by using its compulsory powers to purchase the site of the India Office and sell it back to the Indian Government . |
| 32 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 33 | The entire cast held their breath , as if watching a tightrope-walker stumble , and all let out a sigh of relief when he managed to right himself and make it through to the end of the speech . |
| 34 | For once they managed to evade the searchlights , dodge the guard-dogs , tunnel under the barbed wire and make it back to the sanctuary of their bunks before Stein and the Stalag Squad knew they were gone . |
| 35 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 36 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 37 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 38 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 39 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 40 | Extracting this heat involves pumping water down an injection borehole drilled from the surface , circulating it through pre-existing fractures , or joints , in the rock , which have been enlarged using high-pressure liquid , and bringing it back to the surface via a second borehole . |
| 41 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 42 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 43 | We call upon the BBC for a radical change of policy and demand programmes which build character instead of destroying it , which encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the heart of our family and national life . |
| 44 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 45 | Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration . |
| 46 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 47 | Only the Conservatives will substantially reduce the Community Charge in Oxford , and bring it down to a level that people can afford . |
| 48 | Once a site in a bush or tree has been selected , the pair of long-ta fled tits search for moss and bring it back to the site . |
| 49 | He took a stick and poked the leaves till they glowed , orange flames flickered around the strap and the helmet began to shrivel , slowly becoming unrecognisable , so that Barnes would n't pull it out later and bring it back to the house . |
| 50 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 51 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 52 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 53 | He selected a tape from the rack and threaded it on to a spare machine . |
| 54 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 55 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 56 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 57 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 58 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 59 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 60 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |