Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain , ever since the foundation of the grammar schools in the middle ages , schools have always been thought to have the function of bringing disadvantaged children up to the level of those whose homes are more educative and cultured . |
| 2 | They reckon that dubbing French dialogue on to the kids ' favourite soaps will keep them switched on in class . |
| 3 | Should not the Chancellor hang his head in shame and resign now , and let the Labour party get on with bringing this country back to the richness that it deserves ? |
| 4 | Ace slid to the floor and cleared a space around her by tossing dead creatures on to the pile of bodies in the middle of the cabin . |
| 5 | The present standard of Woolmer Road , the county say , is inadequate to accommodate safely the traffic volumes likely to result from directing two-way traffic on to the route . |
| 6 | Heavy rain the night before meant the pitch was waterlogged , and a misunderstanding between the groundsman and myself led to his directing all vehicles on to the playing area . |
| 7 | He was pouring boiling water on to the tea . |
| 8 | Ian Chivers was third at the top , leading five chasers up to the leaders . |
| 9 | Now , he was holding that microphone up to the nearest wall and scanning it , adjusting his headphones . |
| 10 | There should be a mechanism for feeding this information back to the designers so that the succeeding system designs will avoid these problems . |
| 11 | The taxi pulled into her street , the leafy shade of the trees sending dappled moonlight on to the long , sleek black bonnet of a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce limousine . |
| 12 | Missi were supposed to hear and remedy complaints against counts and generally to function as direct lines of communication between court and locality , reporting difficult cases back to the king . |
| 13 | On the small monitor screen his great external weapon was white-hot , seething , dripping molten metal on to the carapace below . |
| 14 | When Billy finally opened , it was an immediate hit , the lavish production opening spectacularly with Crawford descending forty feet on to the stage by parachute , with the help of a harness . |
| 15 | To that extent the Football Association were justified in taking this fixture back to the Sheffield stadium only three years after 95 Liverpool supporters died there . |
| 16 | It was then that James John Weeble , a deaf man from Redruth , came upon the scene , and swam out fully-clothed , and succeeded in dragging both men back to the beach . |
| 17 | The trigger points are innumerable but the nurse should have the maturity to deal with the resultant feelings in a constructive way that avoids reflecting any annoyance on to the patient . |
| 18 | And John Grierson persistently praised Hitchcock for putting ordinary people on to the screen , while attacking Asquith for making films that reflected ‘ a leisure-class England which has lost contact with fundamentals , with the toiling earth and the men who go with it . ’ |
| 19 | It ca n't end like this — you and the TARDIS , fighting the monsters , putting two fingers up to the Master . |
| 20 | The Doctor joined a slow moving column of slaves , carrying concrete slabs over to the dome . |
| 21 | But instead of bringing civilian scientists up to the standard of their military colleagues , many Soviet scientists feel there has been a levelling down . |
| 22 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 23 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 24 | Throwing mooring ropes out to the Continent to balance Britain 's over-strong anchor cables to America made sense to many people . |
| 25 | The normal rules apply where applications do not have this effect although there may be a good argument for transferring such cases up to the High Court . |
| 26 | Yek bathing involved immersion up to the neck in water which was maintained at a temperature hot enough to strip the flesh from a man 's bones if he did not acclimatise himself to it gradually , and baths were communal . |
| 27 | Paul McCormack ( 23 ) was jailed for a year when he admitted culpably and recklessly throwing two trolleys on to the line from a railway bridge at Hope Street in Falkirk on April 13 last year . |
| 28 | Stand upright and do high jumps , bringing both knees up to the chest at the same time . |
| 29 | Seen end on , their sharp , rocky summits point like arrows to the sky , while from the side they become narrow , crenellated ridges offering pleasant ways up to the tops , especially in winter . |