Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pesticide-free and traps male moths by luring them on to a sticky pad with the aid of a sex attractant ( a pheromene lure capsule ) given off by female moths to attract a mate . |
| 2 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 3 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 4 | When they do use bricks here , they paint them brick red so you will know they are bricks , then they stick them on to the front outside walls as an ornamental display . |
| 5 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 6 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 7 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 8 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 9 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 10 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 11 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 12 | She designed a print room based on an eighteenth-century concept , by cutting out black and white prints and their hanging bows and pasting them on to an apricot Regency background . |
| 13 | ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke . |
| 14 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 15 | Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles : |
| 16 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 17 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
| 18 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 19 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 20 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 21 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 22 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 23 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 24 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 25 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 26 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 27 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 28 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 29 | ABERDEEN flirted with disaster at Kilbowie last night before two goals in the final 15 minutes from Scott Booth took them through to a Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle on 3 April . |
| 30 | It spots already compressed files ( ZIP and ARJ and the like , as well as LZH compressed TIF files and so forth ) and just passes them through to the hard disk unaltered . |