Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 2 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 3 | ‘ You keep the paper , I 'll haud on to the cigars . ’ |
| 4 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 5 | The sea crashing on to the rocks by the Giant 's Causeway is the only similarity for Steve Parcell with his last parish , Bournemouth . |
| 6 | Michael , who stands six feet four inches and weighs in at 15 7 stone , beat Scotland 's Colin Brown in the semi-finals of the Amateur Boxing Association Championship at Gateshead Leisure Centre and now goes on to the finals in the Albert Hall , London on May 6 . |
| 7 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 8 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 9 | The secrets were probably gone , passed on to the Russians . |
| 10 | Some of the cost can be borne by the management company and passed on to the owners through the maintenance charge , but the proportion relating to the construction and pre-sales periods will have to be borne by ourselves as developers . |
| 11 | I 'm not going to go on to the things of the brain because we are going to do them further down the list . |
| 12 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 13 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 14 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 15 | Callaghan stood , hanging on to the rags of his self-respect . |
| 16 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 17 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 18 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 19 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 20 | Curzon was more difficult to drive down to the provinces . |
| 21 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 22 | They 'd there 's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens — sorry , lad , galley ! |
| 23 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 24 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 25 | Steps led down to the banks of the river , and from the water 's edge , the ruins of the castle dominated the skyline . |
| 26 | A silver stairway on stage led down to the stalls . |
| 27 | Tiny fields , green and white where the snow was melting again , led down to the outskirts of the town . |
| 28 | At dawn on the morning of his twelfth birthday — in the official court annals his thirteenth , for they accorded with ancient Han tradition in calling the day of the child 's birth its first ‘ birth day ’ — Li Yuan was woken by his father and , when he was dressed in the proper clothes , led down to the stables of the Tongjiang estate . |
| 29 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 30 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |