Example sentences of "with [noun] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 2 | About 6,000 silk rosettes have to be made next , and these are stitched on the inside and outside of the garland before forty-eight red , white and blue ribbons with bells sewn on to the ends are attached . |
| 3 | ‘ We decided to build a balcony with steps going down to the garden , but our builder advised us to think about the year-round advantages of a conservatory , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 4 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 5 | The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses . |
| 6 | Others flow into a stone tank or pond , or have a brick well-housing , with steps leading down to the water . |
| 7 | Across the back of the house was a kitchen , a bathroom and a big breakfast room with steps leading down to the back garden . |
| 8 | Even her little house was somehow in keeping with this picture , although it was definitely not St John 's Wood and there was no delicate wrought iron balcony with steps leading down to the green garden . |
| 9 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 10 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 11 | To understand the meaning of survival , stand beneath a maidenhair tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) or a dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostoboides ) ; both are well represented in Trust gardens and both are ‘ living fossils ’ with pedigrees stretching back to the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 12 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 13 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 14 | Alternatively they may be filled with water made up to the appropriate strength of degreaser or caustic cleaner and heated to boiling point . |
| 15 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |
| 16 | Situated on Beruwela Beach , the Neptune is a comfortable hotel set in a palm grove with lawns leading down to the sea . |
| 17 | Foxgloves form the foreground of my design this month , with sunflowers reaching up to the flocks of birds circling in the sky , above the cottage rooftops . |
| 18 | Complete with provenance reaching back to the artist 's lifetime , and in the present owner 's family since 1690 , this painting 's attribution to Rembrandt has never been questioned . |
| 19 | In fact , until December last theirs was the largest private library of manuscripts in the world , with works dating back to the seventh century and texts of great importance to German history , the natural sciences , military history and the Grand Tour . |
| 20 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |
| 21 | Executives from the main functional areas ( finance , production , personnel and marketing ) are being interviewed at these various levels with results fed back to the companies for discussion , and made more generally available through a book , articles and in conferences and seminars . |
| 22 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |
| 23 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 24 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |
| 25 | A band called Eric And The Good Good Feeling and a stint with EMI led up to the original UFI deal and now finally maybe Frankë 's time has come . |