Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continue down field to stile and road . |
| 2 | How much does the ordinary household give in cash to charity ? |
| 3 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 4 | the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client . |
| 5 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 6 | What the apparatus ‘ sees ’ is the decay of the Z o into an electron and a positron ( an antielectron ) flying off back to back from the point of the collision . |
| 7 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 8 | Open up plea to sex clinics |
| 9 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 10 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 11 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 12 | Use gentle movements upwards from toes , concentrating on the ankle and working up leg to knee . |
| 13 | Here we are , dyke and dybbuk , penned up knee to knee with a gallery of blood relations . |
| 14 | ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death . |
| 15 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 16 | The primary intention is only to consider the Cossacks on a formation basis , and certainly all the evidence indicates that it never entered the mind of anyone at HQ 5 corps that a comprehensive detailed screening process should take place , to sort out liability to repatriation on an individual basis . |
| 17 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 18 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 19 | The ‘ Celtic Tutankhamun ’ in Stuttgart Museum , a chieftain from the fifth century B.C. , was decked out head to foot in the kind of gold hero-gods wear in Celtic myth . |
| 20 | It rules out incitement to violence and threats of armed action ( what Mr de Klerk calls ‘ war talk ’ ) . |
| 21 | Paula said the reason she would not go back Turn to Page 10 From Page 1 was she was frightened of him because he used to beat her . |
| 22 | International : Dictator who sold out country to drug barons faces 120 years ' jail After a seven-month trial , Manuel Noriega has been convicted on eight charges . |
| 23 | In this chapter , I shall attempt to separate the parts that make up the whole , then to explore some of the ways in which we may bring about harmony to mind-body-spirit . |