Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 2 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 3 | A fast trip through central London whisked them past the main tourist attractions and out to the suburbs to the International Training College where they were to stay . |
| 4 | Such a permit , which might cost £75 a year for cars and up to £750 for heavy lorries , would cost all motorway-users the same . |
| 5 | Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday . |
| 6 | The System 16 is a rack mounted system with 16 alarm modules , while the System 4 is a small wall-mounted sensor monitoring system designed for up to 4 remote sensors and up to 85 different operating modes . |
| 7 | The transitional period for a company will begin when it is privatised and will be at least six months and up to 16 months . |
| 8 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 9 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 10 | In his most recent work , he has moved away from elaborate vessels and on to rough-textured jigsaw-like pieces — the ceramicist 's equivalent of collage . |
| 11 | The City Waites provocatively flout the ‘ usual ’ conventions of an early music concert as the audience are whisked forward from the Court of Henry VIII to the bawdy ballads of a Drury Lane coffee house , through the idealistic love songs of the 13th-century troubadours and on to the Renaissance . |
| 12 | Yeah , but I wan na buy , it 's the same size as your bedroom up to the wardrobes and up to the door . |
| 13 | Whereas fairly large areas in the Yorkshire Dales and up to the Scottish Borders were not heavily forested , the Teesdale region had this peculiar sugar limestone , creating a very thin , calcium-rich soil which never produced dense grass cover . |
| 14 | The United Nations Environment Programme has predicted 600,000 additional skin cancers and up to three million more cataracts if there is a sustained 20 per cent loss of ozone . |
| 15 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 16 | They then fought their way past the Dark Elf patrols and back to the Inner Sea . |
| 17 | A panel of judges will read all the entries , and the chosen one will win the tank they need , plus cabinet and hood from AQUARIUMS , CABINETS AND HOODS and up to £150 worth of fishkeeping equipment to complete their dream set-up . |
| 18 | They were asked to make a mouthwatering meal for four using two ducklings , a savoy cabbage , potatoes and up to 3lbs of other ingredients . |
| 19 | Try Mary Quant 's Blushbaby or Refined Blush Powder from 2000 , sweep over your cheek bones and up to your temples to emphasise your bone structure and give a lovely glowing complexion . |
| 20 | The interesting nine-hole golf course affords beautiful views of the mountains and out to Ponta do São Lourenço . |
| 21 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 22 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 23 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 24 | secondly , pursuing untrustworthy promoters or record companies , if necessary through the courts and on to the enforcement of judgements , deters other business people from trying to get rich at the expense of musicians . |
| 25 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 26 | Tears welled up in her eyes , and she did nothing to stop them from spilling through her fingers and on to her cheeks . |
| 27 | ‘ Thompson at your service , ’ said the landlord coming to meet him with a welcoming smile which disappeared quickly as he saw Midnight — his glance sliding from the metal collar to the handcuffs and on to Jess 's flushed face . |
| 28 | Suddenly , guns were fired again , and a group of pirates ran from the woods and on to the stockade . |
| 29 | Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle . |
| 30 | Concentration : this varies enormously from as little as 5 per cent or less active ingredients to around 30 per cent or more in liquid products and up to 100 per cent in powders . |