Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 32 | Her wig is made up of bottle tops , left over from ordinary twentieth-century life , trodden into the dirt underfoot , pressed on to noticeboards . |
| 33 | Richard now pressed on to Salerno , where he wanted to discuss a recurrent ague with the city 's famous doctors . |
| 34 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 35 | The vessel was reported to have travelled on to Aden where , according to a UNHCR official , some 62,000 Somali refugees were housed in camps . |
| 36 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 37 | David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , told the House Mr Naqvi 's body had been flown in to Heathrow yesterday morning . |
| 38 | There is a good collection of passenger coaches , including Mark 1 type vehicles , being recently painted in to BR maroon livery , plus a good assortment of freight rolling stock . |
| 39 | Ammonia is the toxic waste produced by the fish and this is initially bacterially broken down to nitrite in your filtration system . |
| 40 | Broken down to glucose which provides energy . |
| 41 | Since it can also be catalytically broken down to carbon monoxide and hydrogen , it is also a convenient and easily transportable source of syn-gas . |
| 42 | Since it can also be catalytically broken down to carbon monoxide and hydrogen , it is also a convenient and easily transportable source of syn-gas . |
| 43 | Is it stripped down to basics ? |
| 44 | The inflated catalogue of works ascribed to him as a result of late nineteenth-century adulation has now been stripped down to basics . |
| 45 | I had travelled down to Punta Arenas , which the biblical authority of the South American Handbook said was the best jumping-off point . |
| 46 | It came as a shock as I had visited Jack two weeks earlier , having travelled down to Shergold Guitars in Romford to collect my Burns Marvin after Jack had refurbished it for me . |
| 47 | ‘ This would mean we had given in to vandalism and bad behaviour , ’ he said . |
| 48 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 49 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 50 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 51 | The second thing to note is that each offence carries its own scale of penalties , and penalties for one offence are not added on to penalties imposed for a different offence . |
| 52 | The equipment , which should be stored nearby , can be sorted on to shelves or into bins and buckets . |
| 53 | Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards . |
| 54 | THE sportsmen 's dinner wagon rolled on to Darlington and Simpson Rolling Mills , where the football club tops the league and the social club is even more impressive . |
| 55 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 56 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 57 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 58 | One year I walked from Newby Head by Cam High Road to Hawes on a wonderful late spring day and carried on to Hardraw to watch my local band , Settle and Giggleswick Brass Band , take first prize from amongst a great deal of strong opposition . |
| 59 | ‘ Carried on to Miss Berry 's room and tapped very softly on the door . |
| 60 | The skeleton of the body took shape and when complete would be lifted on to rollers , rolled along the timber , out through the double doors and down to the waiting chassis in the yard by means of skids . |