Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we had Miss who used to wear knickers down to her knees . |
| 2 | Wasps can only wish then that this weekend 's activities are as fruitful , the students putting on a brave show with two second-half tries from their dashing wing , Andy Parton , but Wasps — fielding only two of this season 's first-teamers — winning with something to spare thanks largely to the goal-kicking of Paddy Young . |
| 3 | Work on the two drainage ditches to keep water off the deck has now been completed and we have now done some work to provide steps down to trackbed level . |
| 4 | But with monthly payment , money balances will be held to meet expenditures up to one month in the future . |
| 5 | Their numbers have decreased since 1980 , when responsibility for the provision of school meals was delegated to LEAs , with a legal obligation to provide meals only to children in families receiving Supplementary Benefit or Family Income Supplement . |
| 6 | It is interesting to observe that although there were no roads along the valley bottoms to Keswick which were usable by carts , it was quite possible to cart materials down to Penny Bridge . |
| 7 | They will try to frighten voters back to the two old parties . |
| 8 | Expecting a drab , grey , industrialised landscape , the 26-year-old former sound engineer was surprised to find temperatures close to 40C and beautiful beaches on the shores of the Baltic . |
| 9 | The 1988 Act allows open enrolment , so that schools are forced to accept children up to the limit of their capacity . |
| 10 | The Essex Wildlife Trust has produced a leaflet detailing ways to encourage butterflies back to our gardens . |
| 11 | Also transport of coal was slow and expensive , so the owners decided to concentrate industries close to the coal mines . |
| 12 | The road that has been made to carry visitors up to it is wide and smooth , the valley of the Arette that you start by following is beautiful , and the scene once you reach the top is by turns surprising , interesting and panoramic . |
| 13 | Thus , if interest rates are expected to fall , market participants will be unwilling to sell bills outright to the Bank . |
| 14 | As a result banks may have to call in money from the discount houses , which , in turn being short of liquidity , have to sell bills back to the Bank of England ( acting as lender of last resort ) . |
| 15 | ICAS welcomed the review but also said it was a timely reminder of archaic and unnecessary burdens in the UK tax system and urged an independent examination by a working party of all interested bodies to tackle problems close to home . |
| 16 | These were to install illuminations up to 1000 Lux , but all indirectly to avoid sparkle and glare in the abnormally thick spectacles of partially sighted people . |
| 17 | In the case of Bosnasarayi , for example , the first kadi to be appointed with a mevleviyet , Molla Bali Bosnawi , was given a brief to deal with a troublesome situation created by a group of Bayrami seyhs , followers of Shaykh Hamza Bali ( Seyh Hamza Bali ) , a group who , despite stern measures by this kadi , appear to have continued to cause difficulties down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 18 | Second of all because we 're dealing with a topic which people may not want to talk about , may not erm er want to answer questions on to a market researcher , for obvious reasons . |
| 19 | Several bicycles , left days before for repair , would probably have to wait days more to be completed . |
| 20 | To help addicts back to health , many of the ‘ anonymous ’ organisations use a 12-step plan pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 21 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |
| 22 | The new plant rated at 3,000 tonnes per hour was designed to load vessels up to 7,500 D.W.C. |
| 23 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
| 24 | All the hip young things were forced to buy shoes up to two sizes larger than normal . |
| 25 | Place the royal icing in a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle and use to pipe tassels on to the towel , ties on to the shorts and arms on to the sunglasses . |
| 26 | Its FASware software includes a proprietary 80,000-line real-time kernel and an all-important Write Anywhere File Layout ( WAFL ) file system designed from the ground up to handle files up to 4Gb and requiring no disk partitioning , a traditional Unix nightmare . |
| 27 | Its FASware software includes a proprietary 80,000-line real-time kernel and an all-important Write Anywhere File Layout file system designed from the ground up to handle files up to 4Gb and requiring no disk partitioning , a traditional Unix nightmare . |
| 28 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 29 | At a deeper level , it is apparent that not all observers share Scarman 's analysis of the problem or its associated policy response , and it is possible to identify stances both to the right and left of this central reformist tradition . |
| 30 | Owen could not tell whether this actually was the demonstration , conveniently moved in view of the circumstances , or whether Osman meant to whip things up to the point when the crowd would storm the barricade . |