Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 2 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 3 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 4 | Erm he , he then obviously goes on to erm to erm talk about peasant bans and prohibitions erm and for some incredible reason the peasants suddenly take a disliking to gaming , gambling and opium smoking , three things that I could n't think of anything I 'd like to do more , erm |
| 5 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 6 | that 's our home produce snakes and ladders it does n't go on too much , it only goes up to number thirty |
| 7 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
| 8 | This obviously adds on to the cost of your basic computer but if you are a small business it is n't an enormous amount . |
| 9 | The chief motive which would naturally encourage Christian thinkers to look for such an alternative is that Lessing 's horizon necessarily scales down to merely relative and passing significance the events on which Christian faith itself depends — the history recorded and interpreted in the Bible , and in particular that of Jesus himself . |
| 10 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 11 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 12 | Her daughter ( Jack 's Cousin ) runs our postroom at Rutherford here , and her garden literally backs on to mine . |
| 13 | A potentially confusing indefinite referring expression , a man armed with a bayonet , apparently relates back to the period before he was identified as ‘ a dissident Spanish priest ’ . |
| 14 | It basically winds down to about ninety thousand words from each county . |
| 15 | Loans are intended to supplement finance obtained from other sources , and so the EIB only lends up to 40 per cent of the cost of fixed investments of a project with a minimum size of around £1 million . |
| 16 | Universal suffrage in Britain dates only from after the Great War and the right for non-property holders to participate in local elections only dates back to 1949 . |
| 17 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 18 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 19 | I can therefore gladly admit that falsificationists like myself much prefer an attempt to solve an interesting problem by a bold conjecture , even ( and especially ) if it soon turns out to be false , to any recital of a sequence of irrelevant truisms . |
| 20 | Mm he normally goes up to his son 's every six weeks . |
| 21 | No Canadian jokes , please , but doing this on the nation 's behalf just plays up to stereotypes . |
| 22 | ‘ Mass medium ’ thus turns out to be one of those terms , apparently simple , that grow more elusive upon analysis . |
| 23 | If Britain finally signs up to the word ‘ irrevocable ’ , she will have crossed the Rubicon . |
| 24 | it just goes on to the edge here . |
| 25 | He just goes up to her cage and stands there , hardly even looking at her , and she quietens down quick as anything . ’ |
| 26 | It 's something in me , she thought helplessly ; something new , something I do n't understand , something that just goes out to her . |
| 27 | Down the bottom that just goes out to the bottom and there 's a back |
| 28 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
| 29 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 30 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |