Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Follow right edge of sixth field on defined track to gate in far righthand corner ; turn left in seventh field downhill to farm in bottom corner . |
| 2 | We were not to see the famous ‘ stoop ’ dive on to prey after all . |
| 3 | McBride can put his luck down to criticism from scribes down south earlier in the season , rather than bad selection policy . |
| 4 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 5 | The final whistle came with Rayners Lane holding on to win by three goals to nil . |
| 6 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 7 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 8 | A blitz baby hungry for love tries to get her hunted German lover away to safety in Canada ; an actor , taunted by his wife for being still soft and weak , replies he 's been ‘ toughened ’ by military service and proves it by strangling her , and a conductor plans to elope with his pianist mistress . |
| 9 | It is a complex and profound tour de force which carried much of its weight over to radio in Cleverdon 's adaptation and production . |
| 10 | We fly backwards , retracing old tribal routes — dreamed up , or remembered — and into a city walled with honey-coloured stones , where the sage Hanina sends demons home to Hell with their putative tails between their legs , and where King Solomon outwits mighty Ashmodai , Duke of the Underworld , and makes him do the royal bidding like any human flunkey . |
| 11 | UPDATE number 12 ( January 199 ) described the new certification framework which SCOTVEC has established for its awards and this issue aims to bring readers up to date on what has happened since then . |
| 12 | The first issue of UPDATE brought readers up to date with the pilot schemes which were validated to commence in 1988 under the new arrangements . |
| 13 | The role of CCG 's Safety and Training Department has been to analyse the information available : clarify the requirements and keep management , staff and clients up to date on developments . |
| 14 | If the death penalty were abolished it would be possible either to substitute a fixed penalty of imprisonment for life or to give the Judge discretion to pass sentence of any term up to imprisonment for life . |
| 15 | Leaders not only brought supporters up to date with the position of the cause but resolutions took the form of reiteration of basic commitments as well as referring to current developments . |
| 16 | I thought when we did we did that programme out to lunch in the summer and you came along and we talked all about buses and er your organization and I I I was very nice to you actually . |
| 17 | The group nurses the animals back to health at Rossett , near Chester , before finding a good home for them . |
| 18 | The group nurses the animals back to health at Rossett , near Wrexham , before finding a good home for them . |
| 19 | Steps back to friendship with neighbours |
| 20 | The switch back to Creole for the single word " though " is particularly striking . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not necessary , madame , ’ Jenna began , switching her eyes back to Marguerite with a great effort . |
| 22 | The celesta is incapable of forceful delivery , but its cool , clear , limpid , yet luscious notes add a feeling of opulence and luxury even to music of a thoroughly commonplace cast . |
| 23 | Indeed , the Phillips curve did seem to conform with much of what Keynes had written on inflation in the years after the General Theory , the most illuminating example of which is the pamphlet How to Pay for the War ( 1940 ) . |
| 24 | The reason for caution is the ‘ Kinnock kebab ’ : for earners on twice average income the prospective marginal tax rates will be unprecedented and the decision not to phase in the changes slowly will mean a quick fall in discretionary spending . |
| 25 | I have a suspicion that several objectors had more than the local interests at heart ; those who have enclosed part of the lane and extended their gardens on to land over which the public have a right of passage . |
| 26 | In America it is the most common fatal form of cancer , in Britain it is second only to cancer of the lung . |
| 27 | Catch a bus from the Lamb Inn down to Seaside for the shopping precincts . |
| 28 | Erm , if I could just bring the committee up to date on one or two things that have happened in relation to the district auditor 's report . |
| 29 | She saved herself from falling further by clutching at a branch with both hands and then drawing her feet up to safety on a big branch . |
| 30 | Stock broking firms that are involved in the issue or act for the authorities have been banned in the run up to flotation from issuing any research . |