Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 2 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 3 | Gertrude stopped working , and collapsed ponderously on to a seat . |
| 4 | Bravura camerawork conspires with a scarce script and some edgy cutting to exploit every ounce of tension , right down to a killer ending . |
| 5 | Well , she went right down to a size ten when she lost all that weight before . |
| 6 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 7 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the features which stood out most starkly to a western visitor were the harshness of the regime , the lack of stimulation for long-term prisoners , the absence of welfare provisions , and the exclusion of even minor personal comforts such as the display of family mementos and the pursuit of cell hobbies . |
| 9 | Which brings us on nicely to a discussion of pyroclastic rocks themselves . |
| 10 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 11 | The bedroom was insufferably dark , though if he insisted that the drapes be further drawn they would open only on to a dour and leaden sky . |
| 12 | ‘ More wine ? ’ she asked , throwing her coat carelessly on to a sofa in the drawing-room . |
| 13 | Melissa put an arm round her and , at a sign from Madame Delon , led her into the salon , pushed her gently on to a couch and sat down beside her . |
| 14 | In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man . |
| 15 | Robyn sank down on to a chair . |
| 16 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 17 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 18 | This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork . |
| 19 | He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes — bedroom , bathroom , a door opening on to a section of enclosed veranda , and an open veranda beyond that , looking down on to a rather beautiful tropical garden . |
| 21 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 22 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
| 23 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 24 | He moved to her side and took her hand , pulling her down on to a sofa facing his brother . |
| 25 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 26 | Shrugging off the severely cut navy blue linen jacket of her new designer suit , she tossed it over on top of her briefcase , before sinking down on to a sofa and sighing with relief as she slipped off her high-heeled blue court shoes . |
| 27 | ‘ I told you to sit down ! ’ he ground out through clenched teeth , and when she did n't immediately obey him he placed his hands on her shoulders , pushing her firmly down on to a sofa . |
| 28 | I was feeling so tired that I just sank down on to a bench , and — ’ |
| 29 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 30 | The road drooped gently down to a ford . |