Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if , when I turn my Mac on to upload this article , you hear James Brown screaming : ‘ Fellas , I 'm ready to get up an ’ do MAH thang ! ’ do n't fret . |
| 2 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 3 | I think I might take my flute back to school as well . |
| 4 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 5 | if i can use a div 1 player ( bohinen , forest — tech wonder boy with amazing goals and great moves as a speciality — scored the most memorable goal of my life up to date against italy when we beat them at home 2–1 in the EC qual game on june 5th 1991 — world class defender baresi was on his way to the corner flag — outclassed by a bohinen move — when bohinen put the ball under Walter Zenga — i attended the game and had the perfect seat for that goal — hmm — i got a little carried away here , ehh ? ; - ) ) |
| 6 | But apparently people insisted that one stand up to do one 's piece , and I — successfully acclimatised to the horizontal by this time — refused to pander to this sort of nit-picking , and so passed my turn on to Cousin Josh with as much good grace as I could muster . |
| 7 | It looks so sad there , all cold and lonely , that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it , but it flies off . |
| 8 | Better bring my book up to date . |
| 9 | I 'm on my way up to town . |
| 10 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 11 | I was one of the first to leave , making my way back to Number 11 unobserved . |
| 12 | On my way back to Sunset I stopped at the press trailer . |
| 13 | And then I 'd be wearing my cap back to front for a day or so . |
| 14 | Line of washing ( linked to seven — Heaven ) : A washing line of angels ' white dresses stretching from my house up to Heaven ; |
| 15 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 16 | ( d ) The reverse of the above , so that it is the children who are marooned on the alien planet , the teacher who is the alien offering them passage back to earth providing the children can explain the way of life on earth . |
| 17 | Twelve other members will continue their course through to Lent this year . |
| 18 | The central keep dates from the early twelfth century but concentric walling with mural towers was added during the Middle Ages , bringing its fortification up to date ( 526 ) . |
| 19 | Tightening the butterfly nuts on these magnet limpets broke the glass phials , so setting chemical time-fuses ( see Appendix 3 ) before the raiders turned their canoe back to sea on a reciprocal course for the motor launch . |
| 20 | was one of the team involved in the construction of the Grain Terminal at Ipswich — from its conception through to commissioning . |
| 21 | All this may be essential for a fish that would have problems turning its mouth around to defence . |
| 22 | It is a complex and profound tour de force which carried much of its weight over to radio in Cleverdon 's adaptation and production . |
| 23 | Their UK representative is Arvids Natzins of Corby , Northants , and he is appealing to aero clubs worldwide to ‘ twin ’ with LAK and to exchange information as the Latvians urgently need western experience to bring their club back to life and to use western practices . |
| 24 | Bothwell 's men had to carry their leader back to Hermitage , where he was greeted by the mortifying news that the prisoners had overpowered their guards and taken charge of the castle . |
| 25 | According to a Nature Conservancy Council Report ( 1981b ) significant declines in swan populations in many parts of Britain are due to the ingestion of lead shot and weights which find their way on to lake and stream beds from where they are consumed as grit . |
| 26 | With the market for the costliest wines at a current low point , more and more very expensive and underaged bottles are finding their way on to high-street wine merchants ' shelves . |
| 27 | These exotic fruits are increasingly finding their way on to supermarket shelves and from there to our fruitbowls . |
| 28 | ‘ We find a lot of people stop off on their way home from work and then again on their way out to dinner . |
| 29 | ‘ For three years the Government has been cutting help to the unemployed , depriving them of the training they need and reducing their ability to find their way back to work . |
| 30 | After debriefing the other agencies and packing their equipment , the EOD team leave and make their way back to base . |