Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 2 | For the large flag , paint a straw with silver food colouring and when dry , glue on to the large paper triangle . |
| 3 | Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ; |
| 4 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |
| 5 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 6 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 7 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 8 | Change over to the main bed sinker plate . |
| 9 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 10 | Walk on to the unstable cliff tops . |
| 11 | But in practice , neither popular music , however understood , nor its Others — ‘ folk song ’ , ‘ traditional music ’ , ‘ art music ’ , ‘ bourgeois music ’ , or whatever else — walk on to the historical stage in this uncontaminated form . |
| 12 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 13 | That 's interesting where do they meet , walk down to the local church and that 's great well what sort of time do they meet oh you know eleven till five ? |
| 14 | The first operation on the lathe is to mark the inside and outside diameters of the foot , then cut in to the correct depths , measured from the template , using a parting tool . |
| 15 | The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace . |
| 16 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 17 | By pushing the sail over to the left-hand side of the board the CE is also moved , causing the board to steer to the right . |
| 18 | ‘ The Newquay crowd just pose in Beetles covered in stickers and show off to the dodgy girls hanging around on Fistral beach , ’ opines Adam , who claims he 'd only visit the town to compete . |
| 19 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 20 | We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens . |
| 21 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 22 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 23 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 24 | ‘ He strode up to me , clamped a heavy hand on my shoulder and boomed : ‘ Michael , welcome back to the Daily Mirror . ’ |
| 25 | This Autumn Statement and the new economic policy it set down must be judged on whether it gets the country back to work , reduces the dole queues and brings hope back to the British people . |
| 26 | Ophiolimna bairdi can easily be distinguished from O. lineata by a number of features : the disk is covered with granules , not spinelets ; which extend on to the oral frame ; the oral shield is a large triangle and the oral papillae have a different shape and arrangement ( see p. 60 ) |
| 27 | From Dr Jaffery 's rooftop you could look out , past the anonymous walls which face on to the Old Delhi lanes , and see into the shady courtyards and the gardens which form the real heart of the Old City . |
| 28 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 29 | If you are in the south of the country over the weekend of the 23–25 May , then pop along to the English Riviera Centre in Torquay . |
| 30 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |