Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training in skills such as singing or dancing often seems to involve not just acquiring technique , but opening a way through to the basic level of power so that it can ‘ fuel ’ the performance . |
| 2 | So , argues Daedalus , an atom intercepting an X-ray of this energy will absorb it completely by resonance absorption , promoting an electron up to the higher electron-shell . |
| 3 | If the posts are only intended to curve the back , this can be better achieved by planing a curve on to the struts before they are glued to the back . |
| 4 | This is a useful question to ask , for if all we are doing is applying systematic thinking , it may well be that the best answer to a specific teaching problem would be a straight lecture with blackboard illustration , or alternatively simply sending a student off to the library to find a book . |
| 5 | The other picture was of an unrecognisable small boy , holding a cat up to the camera , wearing shorts and standing in front of a privet hedge on the edge of a lawn . |
| 6 | Morrissey , still the object of scorn for his apparently traiterous move to London , was considering a move back to the plush surrounds of Hale Barns ( home of many a former Manchester City player ) in Cheshire . |
| 7 | As they lay on the floor , he went at Pascoe with knees and elbows , everything uncoordinated , getting a blow in to the cheekbone and then a knee close enough to the groin to make Pascoe panic . |
| 8 | , Well done , he 's right , no you were n't , I was just calling an order down to the lower basement . |
| 9 | John McGee was building an extension on to the back of his Middlesbrough home but instead of making the foundations six feet deep , they were just five inches below the surface . |
| 10 | Mrs Gracie was arranging things in the drawing-room at Hampstead , with its white paint and large windows giving a view on to the garden . |
| 11 | I mean he fancied having a day off to the anniversary of them dying , she had a day off then like she did at Christmas |
| 12 | ‘ I think he said he was taking a trip down to the Orne bridges round about mid-day , and would like you to accompany him . |
| 13 | And that meant taking a trip down to the lower end of the Bayswater Road . |
| 14 | In very light cross winds there is always the possibility of dropping a wing on to the ground and swinging badly . |
| 15 | FINDING A WAY BACK TO THE BIG COUNTRY |
| 16 | Forging a way back to the TARDIS , Barbara , who had fallen ill through touching some DN6-impregnated seeds , is restored to full health when the ship dematerialises , the time-travellers returning to full size in the process . |
| 17 | It trembled uncomprehendingly over Harry Dunstaple running towards the ramparts waving a sabre and shouting orders , with the bulging pockets of his Tweedside lounging jacket swinging about his knees over Ford , carefully laying a train back to the wall of the churchyard from one of the fougasses that had been dug … over the Sikhs staggering here and there with loads of small stones to shovel into another fougasse not yet completed … over the green Fleury having a rest in the shade of a tamarind beside the Church wall … and finally over the pariah dog , looking towards Fleury with admiration but from a respectful distance ( for Fleury continued to reject its advances ) . |