Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client . |
| 2 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 3 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 4 | Social and sexual behaviour is common with much tactile contact by young animals , who stroke one another with their penis or flippers , and may swim together belly to belly or touching flippers — something similar to holding hands . |
| 5 | The appearance of mass electorates , the idea of the ‘ nation in arms ’ which underlay military service , and the growth of literacy all made statesmen give more thought to public opinion . |
| 6 | Historians who hypothesise large-scale sea-borne slave-trading in this period should give more thought to logistics . |
| 7 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 8 | Me they 'd probably stone to death . |
| 9 | One big advantage of using Creation 6 for Deco card designing is that you can always check whether the pattern will repeat both side to side and vertically , very easily . |
| 10 | The primary intention is only to consider the Cossacks on a formation basis , and certainly all the evidence indicates that it never entered the mind of anyone at HQ 5 corps that a comprehensive detailed screening process should take place , to sort out liability to repatriation on an individual basis . |
| 11 | The ‘ Celtic Tutankhamun ’ in Stuttgart Museum , a chieftain from the fifth century B.C. , was decked out head to foot in the kind of gold hero-gods wear in Celtic myth . |
| 12 | More positively , they show how attention to detail may bring off results which a simple reorganisation of staff does not . |
| 13 | In this chapter , I shall attempt to separate the parts that make up the whole , then to explore some of the ways in which we may bring about harmony to mind-body-spirit . |
| 14 | Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar . |
| 15 | How much does the ordinary household give in cash to charity ? |
| 16 | Open up plea to sex clinics |
| 17 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 18 | It rules out incitement to violence and threats of armed action ( what Mr de Klerk calls ‘ war talk ’ ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death . |
| 20 | What the apparatus ‘ sees ’ is the decay of the Z o into an electron and a positron ( an antielectron ) flying off back to back from the point of the collision . |
| 21 | Bromhead rendered further service to mathematics through his support of two outstanding self-taught mathematicians from the east midlands , George Green and George Boole [ qq.v . ] . |
| 22 | Here we are , dyke and dybbuk , penned up knee to knee with a gallery of blood relations . |
| 23 | Wind mainly south to south-east fresh . |
| 24 | International : Dictator who sold out country to drug barons faces 120 years ' jail After a seven-month trial , Manuel Noriega has been convicted on eight charges . |
| 25 | Continue down field to stile and road . |
| 26 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 27 | So I have Posi the go-ahead , and we surged out through the Valve , coming almost face to face with the two ships . |
| 28 | Well I do n't think ehm , she and , daughter in law saw exactly eye to eye for a start . |
| 29 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 30 | e.g. " ( Stalin ) ruthlessly swept aside opposition to collectivization and industrialization . " |