Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 2 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 3 | When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats . |
| 4 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 5 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 6 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 7 | When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position . |
| 8 | Rufus takes them on to step two : ‘ So he going to send a search party , is n't he ? |
| 9 | Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters . |
| 10 | Laura found enormous fulfilment in discovering old print references and Brian Jones , a soft-spoken , young artist who had recently joined her design team in Carno , proved adept at transferring them on to fabric . |
| 11 | The beads , sew them on to fabric |
| 12 | If there is an outstanding success , he 'll get them on to television and into the national press . |
| 13 | I I 'm pretty sure that that 's so , Chair , and you d when you say you 're recruiting erm , young people from school , training or , erm , taking them on to engineering vacancies . |
| 14 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 15 | Lower them slowly to shoulder height . |
| 16 | The element of distortion and the handling of the space in these paintings relates them intimately to Cubism , although most Cubist painting is close , too , in feeling to the more constructive and austere portraits , still lifes and landscapes . |
| 17 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 18 | ‘ He really turned me on to geography . |
| 19 | For such particles , tachyons , infinite energy would be required to slow them down to light-speed . |
| 20 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 21 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 22 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 23 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 24 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 25 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 26 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 27 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 28 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 30 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |