Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 2 | They made a gallant array next morning as they marched off from the Burgh Muir in great companies , cavalry and infantry , banners and standards waving , heraldic surcoats colourful , armour glinting in the early morning sunlight , trumpets blowing ; but Ramsay reminded himself that Mar 's army had looked fully as fine and had marched only to disaster . |
| 3 | Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture . |
| 4 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 5 | Masie had responded brilliantly to treatment and seemed fighting fit . |
| 6 | It is considered better to work , over a period of time , with the family as well as the child , providing whatever support , training or care appear to be appropriate at different stages of development . |
| 7 | She is expected soon to hand down a ruling . |
| 8 | In the media foreign incursions were confined largely to cinema films and TV entertainment series . |
| 9 | Leanne , screaming hysterically , was carried outside to safety . |
| 10 | No reasonable person could have objected — nor did they — when , shortly after the death of the Hizbollah bomber , an impressive steel anti-terrorist shield was installed close to No. 10 . |
| 11 | To be a well trained , dedicated and highly motivated team and to be committed totally to safety . |
| 12 | Hotel is located close to Spaghetti Junction and includes 35 rooms all with TV , tea and coffee making facilities . |
| 13 | The plan stresses that new land for development has to be located close to transport routes , have access to water and draining facilities and be attractive to businesses . |
| 14 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 15 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 16 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 17 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 18 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 19 | In these small manufactories adult labour was confined mainly to supervision and it was nimble-fingered children who , for wages of between 1 and 2s ( 5-10p ) a week , produced the pins . |
| 20 | Most firms regarded the cost as low and confined mainly to power used for pumping and to maintenance . |
| 21 | Interestingly , this reliance on state funding is not confined solely to industry . |
| 22 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 23 | Now the baby is in foster care and the mother has responded well to treatment she was given at the hospital . |
| 24 | If there had been I would n't have come here to work , and you know that fact quite well , so forget your so-called ‘ rights ’ , ’ she finished scornfully . |
| 25 | To open up new routes Virgin needs more planes , and it 's come here to Airbus , in the South of France for some of them . |
| 26 | By the time of the camera rehearsals at Lime Grove on Friday morning , the day of recording , everyone was expected to be word perfect , with the equivalent of a twenty-five minute play committed firmly to memory . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never been carried upstairs to bed . |
| 28 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 29 | You know I mean always looked forward to champagne but er there we are . |
| 30 | Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened . |