Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her wig is made up of bottle tops , left over from ordinary twentieth-century life , trodden into the dirt underfoot , pressed on to noticeboards . |
| 2 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 3 | Is it stripped down to basics ? |
| 4 | The inflated catalogue of works ascribed to him as a result of late nineteenth-century adulation has now been stripped down to basics . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The equipment , which should be stored nearby , can be sorted on to shelves or into bins and buckets . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then he and his three uninjured crew scrambled on to life-rafts — and were themselves rescued by helicopter . |
| 9 | It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all . |
| 10 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 11 | Rakovsky 's hands were clenched in to fists . |
| 12 | Over the years some famous visitors have dropped in to Cheers : Emma Thompson , Roger Reed and John Cleese , who won an Emmy for his 1987 appearance as marriage counsellor Simon Finch-Royce . |
| 13 | Over the years some famous visitors have dropped in to Cheers : Emma Thompson , Roger Reece and John Cleese , who won an Emmy for his 1987 appearance as marriage counsellor Simon Finch Royce . |
| 14 | With Ingres Corp and Informix Software Inc already won over to CAFS Content-Addressable File Store-based database Search Accelerator hardware , ICL says that Oracle Systems Corp has now signed to implement a version of its database for the system , while Sybase Inc is waiting in the wings to follow suit . |
| 15 | He was caught with his clothes in tatters trying to flee in a taxi and owned up to police . |
| 16 | Empirical research on custody and divorce , on the personal experiences of divorcees both as solicitors ' clients and as consumers of the judicial process , and on the experiences and attitudes of registrars and lawyers added up to proposals for legal reform from an instrumental perspective . |
| 17 | The portico of St Paul 's in London was let out to shopkeepers , and the main body of the church became a cavalry stables . |
| 18 | Repairs costing £5,000 will be carried out to garages at Evesham Way and Barnet Way , Billingham , by Stockton Borough Council . |
| 19 | Paint and sign work carried out to toilets on the recreation grounds . |
| 20 | The statue-reliquary of St Faith at the monastery of Conques was carried out to manors which the tenth- and eleventh-century monks claimed belonged to them . |
| 21 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 22 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 23 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 24 | The rest of the time was devoted to history or geography , but always there would be two afternoons given over to handicrafts , particularly knitting and sewing . |
| 25 | Many settlements withered during the late Middle Ages but did not die until the Elizabethan or Stuart era when a local lord decided that corn production was no longer economical and that the arable land must be given over to cattle and sheep pastures . |
| 26 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 27 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |
| 28 | According to the Chinese Ministry of Forestry , there has been an increase in the land given over to trees in recent years . |
| 29 | East of the Fosse in Townsend Close , the buildings apparently also went out of use , with their associated plots given over to burials , which again followed the earlier layouts and rarely contained any grave goods ; observation of roadworks between Townsend Close and Heave Acre revealed yet more similar burials . |
| 30 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |