Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drivers who continue trying to ply their trade are having their rickety three-wheeled becaks carried out to sea and dumped . |
| 2 | Behind him the noise was changing , rising , as the fight wound up to pressure . |
| 3 | The Chairman wound up to applause . |
| 4 | In 1920 the 20 acres given over to farming to support the war effort , were re-possessed and relaid by Suttons . |
| 5 | Despite two late goals by MBS , the BNFL side hung on to win 4–3 in a thrilling encounter in the Midlands . |
| 6 | Marianne swayed provocatively towards them , her lush figure and endless legs shown off to perfection in a body-hugging mini-dress . |
| 7 | No there are some er lads gone back to work yes they got children they got mortgages we realize that . |
| 8 | Rafaelo Falah , a Libyan-born Jew who lives in Rome , was downing his houmous alongside Israel 's tourist minister in the ceremony put on to welcome the Libyans to Israel . |
| 9 | Almost all women were in practice put on to piece-work as soon as they had " learnt the case " ( that is they followed the pattern of the male apprentice Chalmers ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is interesting to speculate what sort of state the region and the rest of the country would have been in now had James Callaghan 's moribund administration held on to power in 1979 . |
| 11 | … whether a valuation … is binding … must depend on the terms of the contract ( including any implied terms ) , on the nature of any circumstances relied on to vitiate the valuation , and the nature of the proceedings on which the issue arises . |
| 12 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
| 13 | GOD 'S PROMISES ON THE BRINK and a hero brought down to earth with a bump |
| 14 | After Peniel , when for a night Jacob also , so unheroic hitherto , played a hero 's part , we are given more subtle comedy and another hero brought down to earth . |
| 15 | Last year Hopper trained down to heavyweight , but found it too draining and lost heavily . |
| 16 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 17 | British viewers already have one answer available to them : the first episode has been released here on video by Warners , with a strange , abrupt ending tacked on to offer one solution to the mystery . |
| 18 | Subordination is , in the Genesis text , the punishment meted out to woman . |
| 19 | They may be entirely acceptable procedures in nature reserves with clearly defined goals , but not in a place given back to nature . |
| 20 | In addition , a manual is prepared , summarising the conclusions of the reviews carried out to date and to which the conclusions of future reviews will be added . |
| 21 | The decade began with congress passing various bills that sought to cut off funding for the Vietnam War and in 1973 legislators moved on to pass the War Powers Act over president Nixon 's veto . |
| 22 | At which London railway station did Jeffrey Archer arrange to have cash handed over to prostitute Monica Coghlan ? |
| 23 | Many retailing organizations said they gave fixed-term contracts to seasonal workers brought in to cope with the Christmas peak . |
| 24 | A new paperback edition brought up to date and published under the Trust 's own imprint , is published on 20 September ( £9.95 ) . |
| 25 | Though earlier I criticised Dale Spender for confusing two different things , in fact it is not always easy to make a clear-cut distinction between sexism in language and sexism projected on to language by systems of linguistic analysis . |
| 26 | What happened in the 1980S was that , with the partial exceptions of Britain and Japan , nearly all governments held on to monopoly state control of the telephone network and also largely stuck to their traditional club of equipment suppliers ; consequently AT&T had little foreign success in its chosen strengths of network provision and major equipment items . |
| 27 | Many experiments carried out to date at the individual level shed little light on the problem of complexity — since they typically place the subjects in very simple choice situations . |
| 28 | Some spend their time inland on headwaters where streams are small and flows are low , while others work on predominantly tidal rivers where dilution is easily achieved and any pollution carried out to sea . |
| 29 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 30 | Out at Puddingdale in the same year , Mr and Mrs Quiverful struggled to feed fourteen children on £400 a year , and it would have outraged all Barsetshire had Mrs Quiverful gone out to work . |