Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 2 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 3 | In addition to the barristers in practice , a considerable number have used the Bar as a stepping stone or crutch leading them on to other things . |
| 4 | The best way to enjoy Italian white truffles is to shave them on to hot , simple food — risotto , taglioni or fresh pasta . |
| 5 | An alternative for viewing and drawing small peels or segments of larger peels is to mount them in 35 mm transparency mounts ( preferably with glass both sides ) and to project them on to white paper or card , on which tracings can be made . |
| 6 | These were being lowered to the roof-top , where Repo Men guided them on to powered sleds and steered them into the lift . |
| 7 | Their sedentary way of life , the fact that individual families could become units of production and could not only store considerable surpluses , but pass them on to subsequent generations , now meant that the old egalitarian and cooperative values of the hunter-gatherers were gone for ever . |
| 8 | Try tracing them on to thin card . |
| 9 | For a time she became a pony-dealer , buying horses from tinkers and selling them on to English buyers . |
| 10 | ‘ I had a tough childhood and it spurred me on to great heights . ’ |
| 11 | He had taken me on to smooth his path , and this I had done . |
| 12 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 13 | The Benefits Agency is trying to play down the NAO findings , putting them down to administrative delays rather than errors . |
| 14 | If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure . |
| 15 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |
| 16 | They then ferry them away to different waters in tanks in the back of transit vans . |
| 17 | is possible to identify a syndrome of implicit assumptions in many lesser developed countries ' conservation policies and in more academic and general commentaries on the subject , and to follow them through to particular elements in explicit policy . |
| 18 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |
| 19 | Sad stories of fathers making fortunes out of their pretty daughters by marrying them off to antiquated old men again and again as their husbands wither and die , leaving them with fortune after fortune . |
| 20 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 21 | What the following thrillers have in common is that each is a rattling good read , and together they are the cream ( 1939 , as will be seen , being a particularly creamy year ) of their genre , leading you on to other delights . |
| 22 | Occasionally , however , they may want to pass information about you on to other companies so they too can offer you things you might be interested in . |
| 23 | Did that take you on to different boats from |
| 24 | Did that take you on to different boats from |
| 25 | The influence of a business contact or personal friend wins you over to new tactics making the weekend a crucial time in your future decisions and options . |
| 26 | ‘ He had the look of somebody about to invite you home to cold chicken and salad with a mug of real warm English beer , ’ she continued as they walked the long black-and-white-tiled corridor . |
| 27 | Are you back to normal now ? |
| 28 | and rushes you back to early childhood . |
| 29 | ‘ It will bring you back to furious life . ’ |
| 30 | So , if we actually have everything highlighted again and we 'll actually not follow the list as in the book we 'll , if you type in alt C all your text moves to the centre go alt R everything moves to the right and alt L again it takes you back to left justified . |