Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 HIGH-FLYING Tranmere jet off to Italy for their midweek European tie perched on their loftiest ever league placing of second in division one .
2 The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion .
3 The win provided a fitting send off to Salt Lake City , Utah , where they are representing the Republic at the World 's Standard Championships in the Mormon University .
4 Halfway up , the stream poured out from some hidden source and fell in a silver smoke down to a pool .
5 I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state .
6 Minutes later , Deputy Sheriff Cal Fenton found himself in charge of winding up the night 's operations , and responsible for getting the whole shooting match back to Rockford .
7 She saw his glance flick down to her mouth , then abruptly he was turning away .
8 Those on the western side of the continent travel down to California , while the eastern population of roughly 100 million butterflies overwinters in a small area of central Mexico .
9 I had forgotten to turn the carriage release back to N .
10 CLEVELAND athletes of the future get off to a flying start today with a new course at Cleveland stadium , Middlesbrough .
11 Michael Crawford , who plays him , has the limp stance , the slack jaw , the boiled-eye stare off to perfection .
12 It is a massive con trick — Or will Labour go back to very large Government borrowing , on the scale that occurred in one year under the last Labour Government , of 9.5 per cent .
13 On a day which saw the All-Ireland side go down to England 16-2 , Curran made a strong start in her under 18 confrontation with Kate Warne-Holland .
14 On close inspection , several of the demonstrations of a dissociation between latent inhibition and habituation turn out to be of less theoretical significance than they first seemed .
15 But theoretical analysis suggests that credible punishment strategies may need to be quite subtle and sophisticated , which leads to the conclusion that so-called ‘ tacit ’ collusion may in practice turn out to be ‘ secret ’ collusion .
16 The fact that the Wolof turn out to be less ‘ logical ’ when in their own environment than when in contact with European influences just happens to follow from the tests , whatever we might want to believe .
17 Ilmenites from the same rock contain up to I per cent V&sub2 ; O&sub5 ; .
18 From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place .
19 According to the underplating model the addition of volcanic rock thickens the crust and the resulting isostatic adjustment leads to the formation of a broad hot-spot swell up to 2000km across and an increase in surface elevation of up to 2000 m .
20 Home Office ministers have asked the Association of Chief Police Officers to monitor the spread of scanners which can detect a radar trap up to three miles away .
21 The headtorch stumble down to Kilmarie and pies and Guinness back at the Sligachan Hotel on the way home ended Dianne 's ‘ Maimorable day ’ .
22 Other prospects include Cligga Head , a greisenised granite on the north Cornwall coast which has been examined by adits and drilling , and Redmoor , where drilling has shown a large , low-grade sheeted vein swarm up to 80 m wide and several hundred metres long .
23 On Garrow Lake , a hypersaline lake of 418 ha on Little Cornwallis Island , northern Canada ( 75°N ) , Dickman and Ouelett ( 1987 ) found an ice cover up to 2.4 m thick lasting almost 11 months of the year .
24 Today the young mothers on supplementary benefit hang on to the hopes that sex will be pleasurable and cohabitation will be companionable , but they often are n't and they 're resigned to disappointment .
25 That the written statement and its publication add up to a true Dostoevsky confession , to repentance and acceptance of suffering , to ‘ a wonderful podvig ’ in Tikhon 's words , is one possibility among many .
26 Local education authorities query this pattern of study less often than they used to as principles of credit accumulation percolate through to town halls .
27 Those who break the law face up to two years in jail , although a pregnant women herself is exempt , even if she carries out an abortion on herself .
28 Penalties have also been revised and those who cause death by dangerous driving or driving under the influence face up to 10 years in prison , an unlimited fine and a minimum 2 years ’ disqualification . ’
29 ‘ How do you know what impression I have , and what makes you think that I give a damn what you and that boy get up to in your spare time ? ’
30 They lost 203-186 on aggregate , and on the long cost-saving coach drive back to Lancashire the players had ample time to contrast their status with that of Monaco .
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