Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a wonderful vision but over the course of centuries , the gardens became building plots , access to the new houses being obtained by demolishing part of the ground floor of a house to provide a passageway through to the new dwellings . |
| 2 | Carry over : Try not to carry part of a sentence over to the next page and if at all possible leave paragraphs intact as well . |
| 3 | As already mentioned , the defendant may submit a defence up to the return day and even at the pre-trial review if he or she is prepared to risk costs being awarded against him or her . |
| 4 | Maybe fate had to give you a shove on to the right path . ’ |
| 5 | The result of this scholarly study often produced tall houses such as this , with a semi-basement to rise above the damp and a stairway up to the main floor to add importance . |
| 6 | They , they needed a , a sort of a , a set of more radical policies to , to get full mobilization and it 's out of that that the outline agrarian law comes , and then they realize the mistakes of that and there 's a , there 's a pull back to the right so it 's , it 's that kind of move to the left and then back to the right . |
| 7 | Right and they did n't get a license back to the second war . |
| 8 | Outside , another fierce white explosion of water burst over the side , carried by the screaming banshee of a wind on to the armoured glass plate of the bridge . |
| 9 | Coun Cummings is receiving rehabilitation therapy at Clatterbridge Hospital and on Monday he will travel for a check up to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London , where the bypass surgery was carried out . |
| 10 | The perhaps inevitable consequences were accumulating losses and a withdrawal back to the protected home market . |
| 11 | Every member of a household down to the youngest child will be eligible for perks , whereas for British Telecom and British Gas they were limited to one set per metered outlet . |
| 12 | Reaching to steady the ashtray , I spilt the coffee , and also hooked my elbow in the telephone 's lone dreadlock — so that when , with a final heroic convulsion , I burst out of the bed , the swinging casket somehow smashed into my shin and then dropped like a bomb on to the bare mound of my foot Twenty minutes later , by which time the pain had done its worst , I unpeeled my way through the sodden address book . |
| 13 | CO ON sock and frilly knicker specialist Sherwood Group ( steady at 760p and now capitalised at £140m ) is looking too big for the unlisted securities market and a move up to the main market may well accompany Tuesday 's year-end profits . |
| 14 | Morrissey , still the object of scorn for his apparently traiterous move to London , was considering a move back to the plush surrounds of Hale Barns ( home of many a former Manchester City player ) in Cheshire . |
| 15 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 16 | Assessors scrutinised all aspects of the laboratory 's activities from receipt of a sample through to the final report . |
| 17 | And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school . |
| 18 | This property is personally run by Signor Frank and additional facilities offered include a lift up to the simple bedrooms , and room service . |
| 19 | Tossing her sunglasses and some local currency into a tote bag , she found herself having to make a dash up to the top deck , arriving to find Niall leaning against the rail . |
| 20 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 21 | From there it 's a reach out to the far end to the wind mark , drive there and back to the beginning again . |
| 22 | at some of the things he says , and you agree with other things he says , but when there 's nobody else who 's is trying to get a message over to the general public . |
| 23 | But anyway , this is a very amusing film , but , but the idea of mission control is the concept of the ego , where it is portrayed in a very amusing way in this film by Woody Allen , that the consciousness , Woody Allen 's consciousness , is portrayed as mission control at Houston erm and er erm it , that particular scene ends with er when er control erm mission control sends a message down to the lower parts of the body , I wo n't mention which , says we 're going around again boys , and they think oh my God they 're very amusing . |
| 24 | Coffee and a stroll up to the nearest AVIS and we were off to our next destination . |
| 25 | From here , a turn down to the left leads to High Birkwith and then two miles of uneventful tarmac , heading south to the starting point of the walk at Horton . |
| 26 | She stretched a hand out to the gangling youth . |
| 27 | As he scanned the laden shelves to left and right , there was suddenly a sound like a hundred ball-bearings being dropped from a height on to the bare floorboards . |
| 28 | In the event of an emergency we ca n't simply shunt a patient off to the nearest available cardiac unit or casualty department . |
| 29 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 30 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |