Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forests , coniferous , deciduous and mixed , sometimes in villages and large cities , often hunting by day for mammals up to the size of a red squirrel and birds up to the size of a Hazelhen. 24 in. ( 61 cm . ) . |
| 2 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 3 | Steer the board through the eye of the wind until the sail brushes on your back leg , before transferring both back hand and foot up to the mast . |
| 4 | Eubank has got where he is by aggravating public and opponents alike to the point that all they want to see is the object of their dislike brought down with a bump . |
| 5 | Thus when the women stop pleading for peace and resort instead to the threat of killing themselves it the fight proceeds , it is as if the currents of sexuality and violence , circulating between the men in a way which sustains sexual difference between male and female , are suddenly switched off ; the threatened self-annihilation of the women is also a breaking of the circuit . |
| 6 | For illuminating patios and walkways close to the house , use wall-mounted lights — such as spotlights , tungsten halogen floodlights or one of the many decorative types of light available ( globes or lanterns , for example ) . |
| 7 | In the US election , commentators are bemoaning the lack of international issues , but they are still markedly more present than here : President George Bush and Bill Clinton are arguing over how and when to help the former Soviet states , Clinton is proposing to allow Japan and Germany on to the Security Council of the UN , all candidates have a figure for American troop presence in Europe , ranging from Bush 's 150,000 to Jerry Brown 's 1,000 , with a European force of 1,000 stationed in the US . |
| 8 | The convoy turns and heads back to the warehouse at Zenesa . |
| 9 | Lay one of the long strips of cardboard over this join and staple through card and fabric on to the batten . |
| 10 | She groped her way across and landed the doctor on the mud and he slithered on hands and knees up to the bank . |
| 11 | France has huge possessions — the Tahiti group , the Marquesas , the Tubuais and the Tuamotus , as well as those of Wallis and Futuna well to the west . |
| 12 | But if you saw him running for the bus , he would go blue in the face and collapse on to the bus . |
| 13 | But Mr Tomlinson built his own bonnet , mudguards and steps up to the cab and set in louvred vents either side of the bonnet to let out the heat produced by the massive engine . |
| 14 | Using a paint brush paint blue eyes and whiskers on to the rabbit 's face and pink ears and a nose . |
| 15 | Somehow , against her better judgement , she refrained and placed his plate with chicken and salad on to the tray . |
| 16 | ‘ The public house represents what should be the hub of our wheel of life , essential to our material need and second only to the church that stands and represents our spiritual necessity . |
| 17 | Soon after he returned Sigarup took the rams and he-goats back to the mountain pastures . |
| 18 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |
| 19 | This covers identical articles and articles substantially to the design . |
| 20 | It is a thin sheet of plastic , covered with a shiny coating of the metal alloy , virilium , and folds up to the size of a handkerchief . |
| 21 | Alternatively you can turn right along the forest road then go left and drop down off the road to follow a track and waymarkers down to the car park . |
| 22 | A rethink is needed at all stages from recruitment , training and approval through to the post-placement and post-adoption support . |
| 23 | Alexandra watched it , wondering whether she ought to get up and put it back before it started to spit flame and muck on to the carpet . |
| 24 | Long before the doors of the Chinese empire opened to the West , travellers in other parts of the globe were sending plants and seeds back to the motherland to enrich or replace those native collections which had existed in some cases from early times . |
| 25 | As the wind increases , hand and feet positions should move further back ; your arms should be extended , with shoulders and hips parallel to the sail . |
| 26 | Just as Hobbes rejects Descartes 's view of sense-perception as having to do with an immaterial mind , so his moral philosophy is purely materialistic , and appeals only to the idea of matter in motion . |
| 27 | Within the cone of vision it is assumed that all lines and planes parallel to the picture plane are true to scale . |
| 28 | ‘ Doctor , get the captain and squire down to the cabin . |
| 29 | A little outside Saint-Jean to the north-east , in fact , near the village of Ostabat , three of the main pilgrim routes across France met up , to advance as one towards the mountain passes , so that through Saint-Jean there went the pilgrims who had travelled from Paris , from Vézelay in Burgundy , and from Le Puy and Conques further to the south ; only those who had come through Provence took a different route into Spain , over the Col du Somport . |
| 30 | The jury left too , and the police took Sarah and Hassan back to the prison . |