Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the venue , the Inspirals climb into their cramped tour van and head back to the hotel exuding quiet satisfaction . |
| 2 | Cut down to the bone to avoid excessive wastage . |
| 3 | Just before leaving , glance up to the left to see the glazed window through which Franz Kafka gazed upon Catholic services in church from his parents ' flat next door . |
| 4 | The escort races to the arms cabinet to withdraw the team 's weapons , whilst the others run out to the garage to load the last of the equipment . |
| 5 | I left Reine early , when all the people who live on the outskirts of Paris pour in to the city to work . |
| 6 | No I think we should do the north first , then go down to the south to meet Frank and Dave . |
| 7 | She knew that the Pitts were going to stay with the police , go down to the river to wait if the Chief Superintendent let them , but she did not want to . |
| 8 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 9 | At the height of the gale I go down to the pier to see how our local boats are doing , but all the anchors appear to be holding firm . |
| 10 | She watched him go over to the coffee-machine hissing on a cabinet near one of the windows , saw him deftly take cups and saucers from a cupboard . |
| 11 | The first thing we 'll do is look at the data , alright , so if you go from the action menu into option one , right , we 're going to plot er go through to the transform edit |
| 12 | Fetch the lead there go up to the kitchen do you think ? |
| 13 | I go up to the counter say , erm , I 'd like this please , but it 's actually got this tear in it , or whatever 's wrong with it , erm , can you give me some discount ? |
| 14 | When I go up to the farm to get Mummy 's eggs , I 'll ask if we could use it for our meetings and … ’ |
| 15 | Sam Rollins and Dwayne and Carlos go out to the plane to split the coke . |
| 16 | So when I 've finished the first draft , I go back to the beginning to check that it all hangs together . |
| 17 | Head to the viewing platform and then turn right through the wood and go back to the field turning right down the hard path and going back to the Castle Bolton signpost . |
| 18 | The north face is in the sun until around 10–11 am ; then go round to the wall overlooking Walker 's Gully until about 1pm . |
| 19 | I was in the house the night you came back , and I watched you try the french windows , and then go round to the back to find the kitchen window locked , too . |
| 20 | All your horses are out , put your men up they walk round the ring and at seven o'clock you move off to the heath to train your horses . |
| 21 | If , when you get on , all your weight is left on the back foot , the back of the board will inevitably sink and you will go for a swim — as you step on to the board move the weight forwards quickly . |
| 22 | Fig 51 When you place the weight over the back foot the tail will submerge , so as you step on to the board lean forwards placing weight through the front arm on to the mast foot . |
| 23 | She had evidently only come down to the foyer to collect her mail . |
| 24 | Then I step up to the bar to order more beer . |
| 25 | The difficulty with all these forecasts is that the type of skills required depends on decisions made by managers about the way in which work is organised around the technology , and we thus come back to the problem identified with forecasts made about the impact of new technology on society . |