Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 2 | In terror Ruth dropped the receiver down on to its cradle . |
| 3 | Then , scampering up behind Handlebar 's bird it grabbed its rival by the neck , gripped , and forced it down on to its side . |
| 4 | She banged the iron down on to its tin rest , took up a small bowl of water , sprinkled the sleeve . |
| 5 | Compared with the Fontenay Trio ( Teldec ) , they are richer and more responsive to the music 's latent unease , less so to its elegance . |
| 6 | Far below it , unseen in the clouds , the bird that had brought the earlier message to the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork flapped gently back to its home . |
| 7 | As it slid down the avenue the old crow , which had risen and was circling warily , dropped down again to its crust . |
| 8 | The cat rolled over on to its back and shadow-boxed with imaginary flies , guileless of face . |
| 9 | Reaching into the water they grabbed hold of the boar 's legs , and after several attempts swivelled it over on to its back . |
| 10 | After greeting you frantically , the dog rolls over on to its back , and a small volume of urine is passed at the same time . |
| 11 | The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash , exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon . |
| 12 | Both the car and the trailer were badly damaged , but because the glider was securely held in by the fittings , it survived the trailer going over on to its side without damage . |
| 13 | By contrast her bowl curled in a perfect arc from the left and finished up a foot from the target , keeling over on to its side . |
| 14 | The Doctor cursed and spun the tank about again , this time almost tipping it over on to its side . |
| 15 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 16 | His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side . |
| 17 | He took a deep breath , wedged his shoe under that head and began to heave the thing over on to its front , bracing his hand against the railing . |
| 18 | CAM developments therefore give greater credence to the ideas behind activity-based costing , though not necessarily to its application in complex routine costing systems providing regular monthly reports on an activity basis . |
| 19 | Every living cell has a naturally occurring vibration which relates not only to its level of energy , its mass and its form but to the nature of the medium in which it vibrates — its environment . |
| 20 | The tensions exhibited by the Council of Europe must be attributed not only to its structure , but to the forces which determined it . |
| 21 | MDC 's performance must in future be assessed in terms of its ability to work with local authorities and community groups and its achievements in bringing jobs and prosperity not only to its area but also to its indigenous population . |
| 22 | This was due not merely to its length , but also to the character and personality of Boniface ; yet even here Edward was in luck . |
| 23 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 24 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 25 | I went into the race after some good runs but with the injury earlier in the year , my training load was not up to its maximum . ’ |
| 26 | But while the ups and downs of Ferranti 's future remain of keen interest , not least to its management , workers and shareholders , there are wider questions to be addressed as the Nato European Fighter Management Agency plunges into its final decisions on the European Fighter Project . |
| 27 | But while the ups and downs of Ferranti 's future remain of keen interest , not least to its management , workers and shareholders , there are wider questions to be addressed as the Nato European Fighter Management Agency plunges into its final decisions on the European Fighter Project . |
| 28 | It was uncrossable for at least a hundred yards , but then my side appeared to slope more easily to its floor . |
| 29 | Simply put , this replaces one of the springs in the rear cavity with an adjustable ‘ piston ’ which is set to return the tremolo more accurately to its standing position , hence keeping the instrument 's tuning more stable . |
| 30 | They are thought to make each zebra feel it belongs more strongly to its group than it would do if its colours were nondescript or dull . |