Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 2 | The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point . |
| 3 | Lucifer pointed out to Eve the forbidden apple on the flat tree painted on to the back panel of the cart . |
| 4 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 5 | ‘ As the industry matures , I believe airlines will be stripped down to the core business of flying people and cargo from place to place . |
| 6 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 7 | In his place , the MP for Hamilton , George Robertson , who yesterday was voted on to the shadow cabinet for the first time . |
| 8 | ‘ It should be stressed that no debts arising from non–payment of the community Charge have been added on to the Council Tax bills . ’ |
| 9 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 10 | We took off on time , but we had unknowingly booked on to the milk run . |
| 11 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 12 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 13 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 14 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , the Cat Woman , ’ Nassim said casually , then yelled : ‘ Care-ful ! ’ as part of the window-frame dropped on to the bathroom carpet . |
| 16 | ‘ Ask yourself , John , a device the size of a nuclear tactical shell used by the artillery , with damage confined only to the research station , or the dissemination of some of the most deadly bacterial and viral agents the world has ever known . ’ |
| 17 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 18 | Journal-to-journal co-citation analysis would not have added much to the journal list analysis described in Chapter 3 , because of the small number of journals involved , and the ease of identifying core journals by simple counts . |
| 19 | Vincent asked to be wound down to the pit bottom . |
| 20 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |
| 21 | The lift doors closed across his exclamation of relief and frustration and he was carried down to the ground floor . |
| 22 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 23 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 24 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 25 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 26 | There was scarcely any time for a cigarette before we were hustled over to the equipment store . |
| 27 | He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ . |
| 28 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 29 | The Reiterhof is a large hotel with plenty of facilities , and is well suited for walkers as it is located close to the mountain cable car . |
| 30 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |