Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 2 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 3 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 4 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 5 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 6 | Modigliani sketched a middle-aged couple in evening dress who had probably dropped in to the Rotonde late one night . |
| 7 | Applications may , however , be considered up to the date when a course begins , provided that not all places have been filled . |
| 8 | It is advisable to apply as early as possible , and preferably before 31 January of the proposed year of entry to the University , though application may be considered up to the date when a course begins , subject to the availability of places . |
| 9 | However applications may be considered up to the date when a course begins , subject to the availability of places . |
| 10 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 11 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 12 | Although the area can then be cleaned , the puppy is likely to be attracted back to the site again unless you can remove the underlying odour . |
| 13 | If this was the case and that principle was carried forward to the Act then the duty under the Act would be unexcludable . |
| 14 | Does he agree that the private sector electricity industry makes it ever more important that safeguards should be built in to the process so that the need factor and the environmental impact are taken into account ? |
| 15 | While Fullan writes in a wide educational context , his work can be applied directly to the initiatives now underway in the UK : |
| 16 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 17 | This way of regarding the infinitive 's relation to person can be applied moreover to the uses already examined in Chapters Two and Three , where this form is related to another verb in the sentence and thus provides a coherent explanation covering all the uses of both versions of the infinitive by means of a single principle of analysis . |
| 18 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |
| 19 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 20 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 21 | Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck . |
| 22 | Cotte 1982a : 139 ) : the concurrence implied by let has been pushed here to the point where let simply indicates that the infinitive 's event was realized . |
| 23 | used on to the wire so that you ca n't take it off . |
| 24 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 25 | I think Shel 's got down to the beginning again ! |
| 26 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 27 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 28 | I 'm only looking , I have n't even got down to the thing yet . |
| 29 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 30 | The new minibus was handed over to the school yesterday in a ceremony attended by governors and members of the Eastbourne Parent Teachers Association . |