Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 2 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 3 | yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group |
| 4 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 5 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 6 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 7 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 8 | Erm , can I take you on to the next one which is twelve B two . |
| 9 | ‘ I will have a few casts here , Blair , then follow you down to the next pool , ’ I suggested . |
| 10 | Then , as the heel touches the ground , lock your ankle and shift your weight forward with the knee bent , rocking forward onto the toes and using them to push you off to the next step . |
| 11 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 12 | The date of the Withington and Newton St. Loe mosaics remains unclear , but , on stylistic grounds the author would assign them also to the fourth century ( pace Smith 1969 , 100 ) : they are probably slightly later than the above pavements ( section 4.3 ) but almost certainly are before 340 . |
| 13 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 14 | A modern Roman Catholic authority recounts a story which brings them up to the fourth century — the time of Constantine . |
| 15 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 16 | ‘ Take me up to the twentieth floor , quickly , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 18 | and you so far out and then you drove another one in to the next chamber . |
| 19 | They 'll they and they you 'll see them going mm not that not that one back to the first I do n't know and then they get the dictionary out . |
| 20 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 21 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 22 | Then they pushed her , from one man to another , making her stumble as each man greedily explored her body before shoving her on to the next man . |
| 23 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 24 | How could they , she thought in sudden sentiment , and the anger carried her on to the next street . |
| 25 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 26 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 28 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 29 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 30 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |