Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | ‘ This would mean we had given in to vandalism and bad behaviour , ’ he said . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 37 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 38 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 39 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 40 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 41 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 42 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 43 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 44 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 45 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 46 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 47 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 48 | ‘ [ The eunuch ] waited until the hour Shah Jehan had sat down to dinner , ’ wrote Manucci . |
| 49 | Alternatively , the targeted assets can be hived down to Target and all the other assets and liabilities of the transferor company can be extracted from it into a company which is to stay in the vendor group . |
| 50 | Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody . |
| 51 | But their sons and grandsons were all won over to Christianity . |
| 52 | If the urban élites were largely won over to Christianity by about 430 , the masses had drifted into it even sooner . |
| 53 | That was a signal for the class to enter into the fun and one and all scrambled over to Mademoiselle . |
| 54 | Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy ( the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks ) ; Hadfield goes catatonic with terror , and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle . |
| 55 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 56 | All added up to subsistence farming in its most rudimentary form , with minimal trading and scarcely any money circulating , so that the assessors ' valuation of livestock — and household effects — may well have been frankly notional . |
| 57 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 58 | My father come up to school , he come up there on a bike to see the schoolmaster and get me out to get a load of hay home . |
| 59 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 60 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |