Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had these cab-drivers in Israel using taxi frequencies to pass on intelligence to Cyprus , and as it came in , so they 'd pass it up the line to the PLO office in Nicosia . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fish build up resistance to nitrates as nitrates build-up in your tank . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , it squarely embodies an assumption that causal laws are correlations , thus ruling out reference to structures and structural forces to explain the correlations . |
| 5 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How much does the ordinary household give in cash to charity ? |
| 11 | The remainder of Cynthia 's visit was spent in supporting Dorothy 's arm while she wrote a letter that was to be given to the solicitor — a Mr Graham Lytham of Messrs Granby , Hemingford and Bowles — and handed in person to Dorothy 's son when he received his gift . |
| 12 | But the police lost out at Newforge Lane on Tuesday evening , going down 1– to Queen 's . |
| 13 | Jerry Rawlings ( who had also staged a successful coup in June 1979 against the then military rulers , and had handed over power to President Hilla Limann in September of that year ) . |
| 14 | In 1969 the National Liberation Council handed over power to Dr Busia , the moderate politician amenable to Western counsels . |
| 15 | first world war , sort of , really , opened up education to women and , and really more than anything . |
| 16 | Open up plea to sex clinics |
| 17 | ( Perhaps there are analogies here with occupations which open up membership to women and subsequently decline in status and pay . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It rules out incitement to violence and threats of armed action ( what Mr de Klerk calls ‘ war talk ’ ) . |
| 20 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 21 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 22 | Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Here we are , dyke and dybbuk , penned up knee to knee with a gallery of blood relations . |
| 26 | They also agreed that the EC should step up aid to projects to improve social and economic conditions for victims of apartheid . |
| 27 | But I 'm really looking forward to moving back north to Scotland when the job 's done . ’ |
| 28 | For all the talk , dishing out control to individuals has its limits . |
| 29 | At the grand age of 74 , Mr Schmidt has appointed himself Germany 's agony-aunt and scold , dishing out advice to politicians left and right . |
| 30 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |