Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below him , Fleury raced along outside the churchyard wall under the bayonets of the galloping sepoys , touching off the trains to the fougasses . |
| 2 | The red and green of the Aztec necklace links it compositionally with the indigenous plants to the ‘ south ’ of the painting , the pink colonial-style dress tonally blending with the skyscrapers to the ‘ north ’ . |
| 3 | A few years ago , we were walking in the mountains to the south of Loch Tummel , heading for a tiny water called Loch a'Chait , a hard tramp uphill from Lick . |
| 4 | She walked quickly along the landing to the bathroom , knocking on the doors to the children 's rooms as she went . |
| 5 | Just before Marsworth a four mile circular walk leaves the canal at Watery Lane , follows a short section of the Grand Union Canal proper going north before returning across the fields to the car park at Startop 's End Reservoir . |
| 6 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 7 | Top-quality diamonds , even small ones , are normally ‘ sourced ’ with a certificate when released to the trade by the Central Selling Organization which dominates the world diamond trade , handling over 85 per cent of stones passing from the mines to the trade . |
| 8 | With the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537 , the wool trade underwent a notable change , passing from the abbeys to the towns and village markets . |
| 9 | Looking across the fields to the little beck , with the heronry beyond and the green sweep of the moors rising above , he drew a deep breath of satisfaction . |
| 10 | These ghosts want to stop the adventurers heading through the doors to the south ; they believe Evil and Chaos lurk behind them . |
| 11 | You could do the arrow going from the figures to the answer , from the sum to the answer not from the answer to the sum really does n't it ? |
| 12 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 13 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 14 | Another iron gate , completing the quirescreen barricade , closing off the steps to the nave . |
| 15 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ she said , starting up the stairs to the flat where her parents , her tormentors , were Lying awake in separate rooms , one trying to die , the other no doubt wishing for death . |
| 17 | By the time he reached the end of the yard Martin was already out of the car and was running up the steps to the house . |
| 18 | She saw two little girls , nicely dressed , running up the steps to the nearest house , starting to beat at the paint-scraped wooden door . |
| 19 | The ovum passes into the fallopian tubes ( hair-like tubes running from the ovaries to the uterus ) and it is here that the egg may be fertilised . |
| 20 | Of course , as you will have guessed , the leads running from the microphones to the tape recorder in the middle of the floor were false . |
| 21 | It has been shown in some animal species that there are nerves running from the eyes to the SCN . |
| 22 | She walked over and leaned out , inhaling the scent of roses , staring over the houses to the hills beyond . |
| 23 | I still get butterflies coming down the steps to the tournament table . |
| 24 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
| 25 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 26 | any other financial arrangements contained in the agreement shall not thereby be rendered void or unenforceable and shall , unless they are void or unenforceable for any other reason ( and subject to sections 35 and 36 , below ) be binding on the parties to the agreement . |
| 27 | Watching Violet sitting through the preliminaries to the world title elimination bout was rather like watching her son as he prepared for the fight . |
| 28 | Transferred to Fort Vancouver as an accountant , he rapidly improved its management and was given more responsibilities , including negotiating with the Russians to the north and the Mexicans in California . |
| 29 | Shortly after entering , the adventurers find themselves faced by the Ghosts of three Elves standing before the doors to the south . |
| 30 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |