Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 2 | If we move them on to the street , there 'll be more trouble . |
| 3 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |
| 4 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
| 5 | Spraying the aerosol is the best way to get them on to the enemy , but even this is difficult . |
| 6 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 7 | She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug . |
| 8 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 9 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 10 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 11 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 12 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
| 13 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 14 | The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank . |
| 15 | He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged . |
| 16 | WORMS stopped play in the Wiltshire tennis championships after heavy rain drove scores of them on to the Marlborough courts . |
| 17 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 18 | With wrong side of skirt facing you , pick up ‘ stitches ’ from half the top of skirt , putting them on to the needles that are in WP . |
| 19 | Keep the test papers safe or pass them on to the class teacher ( or the student ) so that weak areas can be diagnosed . |
| 20 | We just clear them on to the runway and tell them what other traffic we expect . |
| 21 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 22 | What they had failed to do was pass them on to the laity . |
| 23 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 24 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 25 | ( iii ) Transfer embryos to 1% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 and mouth pipette them on to the centre of a prepared coverslip . |
| 26 | With a flick of its head , it throws them on to the water . |
| 27 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 28 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 29 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 30 | The prisoners were taken to the riverside , where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship . |