Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the bottom ( north ) end it connects with a tarmac farm road which continues through a level crossing ( point C on map ) which is now open to pedestrian traffic only ( so it 's a very quiet lane ) , and thence to the entrance to Riccarton campus ( point D ) . |
| 2 | His Canadian passport was beautifully forged and had brought him effortlessly into the Republic of Ireland and thence on the ferry to England . |
| 3 | Narrowing my eyes against the Atlantic glitter I could see the line of a path that climbed from the bay and on over the headland to the west . |
| 4 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 5 | They turned and made their way along the platform , through the small waiting-room and so into the road to where the horse and trap waited . |
| 6 | In meditation it is possible to dive deeper and deeper into the mind to a place where there is no disturbance and there is absolute solitude . |
| 7 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 8 | Place mortar on the hawk and hold it in line and just below the joint to be filled |
| 9 | When you looked up too long without blinking on a day when the sun was high and the blue saturated the sky evenly and deeply from the horizon to the zenith , and closed your eyes , what you saw then was fire , crisscrossed with rivulets of blood . |
| 10 | And once in the nude to annoya . ’ |
| 11 | Using a compact model where waste is generated , also saves continuous trips back and forth from the kitchen to outside dustbins . |
| 12 | Joe sat on the wooden kitchen chair and watched Mrs Alice Carver flitting back and forth from the stove to the table , talking all the while . |
| 13 | Matters were made worse by the defection of the Harwell scientist Bruno Pontecorvo in September 1950 ; and later by the escape to Moscow of the British diplomatic defectors Burgess and Maclean in June 1951 . |
| 14 | Malcolm brought the party to the wreck of the Empire Heritage , north of Fanad Head , and later in the day to two other smaller wrecks . |
| 15 | The statement of standard accounting practice set out in paragraphs 16 to 61 of the [ draft ] FRS should be read in the context of the Objective of the [ draft ] FRS as stated in paragraph 1 , the definitions set out in paragraphs 2 to 15 and also of the Foreword to Accounting Standards and the Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting currently in issue . |
| 16 | Section 11(4) requires regard to be had to the financial resources of a party claiming the protection of an exemption clause which limits liability by reference to a specified sum of money , and also to the extent to which he could cover his liability by insurance . |
| 17 | The influence of side chain flexibility is evident on examination of the polyacrylate series from methyl through butyl , and also in the polypropylene to poly(hex-1-ene) series . |
| 18 | Running for the car , the car going steadily , not too fast to the airport , and out onto the flight to Ankara . |
| 19 | So she changed direction again and found herself walking down to the prom and out along the beach to Seal Sands Lock . |
| 20 | Kate then marched the girl along the cell row , through the desk sergeant 's office and out of the building to the car park . |
| 21 | Down through the old meat-market streets , into the tunnel with its rows of lights like neon stitching and its shiny cream tiles , up into Venus , then round the western edge of the harbour and back over the bridge to C Street . |
| 22 | You see , and so we went to oh Inverness , Aberdeen and across to the Isle of Skye , and down the Skye and back across the water to Mallaig you see and er then we stayed one time at Fort William and because I love Scotland , so did he and erm and , and then and all r and then , and another thing , erm , this is before I married erm I went down , oh no , both of us , that 's right , we went down to stay at erm not , not Portsmouth er Southsea er there , there 's a place near there , next door |
| 23 | The Department of Employment ( DoE ) recognised that there was a lack of objective information about open learning material , and particularly about the extent to which an open learning package covered a given area of competence . |
| 24 | Behind all these images , and particularly in the reference to the moon , lies a constant process of birth and death , creativity and destruction . |
| 25 | Generally records of small traders have been lost to history and even with the transition to electronic media this is not likely to change . |
| 26 | William , in his early years , experimented with mixed administrations , and even after the rise to political predominance of the Whig Junto in 1694 , a number of Tories continued to serve in the government ( notably the followers of the Duke of Leeds , the erstwhile Earl of Danby ) . |
| 27 | There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming fullgrown unbelief . |
| 28 | World champion , and well on the way to winning it for a second time . |
| 29 | That put the Perth team 4-2 ahead and well on the way to the title . |
| 30 | But the font is of the twelfth century , so there was a church here then ; and deep in the churchyard to the east of the chancel is a buried wall which is perhaps the east wall of a Saxon church . |