Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with such opportunities as the Bill presents to get cases into the Crown court , where the offence involves only damage to vehicles or property — the vast bulk of cases — it is the value of the damage to property , as set out in clause 2 , that is the criterion , not the extent of the nuisance and danger , although that is the real problem with which we need to get to grips . |
| 2 | From the summit descend steeply north-west to Bwlch Eryl Farchog . |
| 3 | A Protestant emphasis on improving the world , under the aegis of providence , could confer dignity on scientific activity that promised both glory to God and the relief of human suffering . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There have been a number of other reformulations and reinterpretations that have done less violence to Mannheim 's legacy than did the early sociological and philosophical responses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It just added further proof to Branson 's growing conviction that Virgin and the airline business were made for each other . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Historians who hypothesise large-scale sea-borne slave-trading in this period should give more thought to logistics . |
| 10 | Me they 'd probably stone to death . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar . |
| 13 | Open daily Easter to September , 10am to dusk , weather permitting . |
| 14 | The resort is now only ¾ hour travelling distance from the M56 Motorway which links with the M6 , leading either south to Birmingham and London and the south-west or North to Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Over the next few hundred years , Tewkesbury remained a busy commercial centre , often ranked only second to Gloucester . |
| 16 | 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 . ] . |
| 17 | Wind mainly south to south-east fresh . |
| 18 | In two-road Dinsdale , the only crossroads was where the Roman road running straight north to Sadberge from the Tees was intersected by the east-west lane joining Stockton and Darlington . |
| 19 | So I have Posi the go-ahead , and we surged out through the Valve , coming almost face to face with the two ships . |
| 20 | Well I do n't think ehm , she and , daughter in law saw exactly eye to eye for a start . |
| 21 | e.g. " ( Stalin ) ruthlessly swept aside opposition to collectivization and industrialization . " |
| 22 | Masked by the formalities of the telegram sent yesterday morning to Mr Major by M Jacques Delors , EC commission president , the mood in the corridors of Brussels was less than euphoric . |
| 23 | I mean it 's such a variety and it 's involved both face to face and direct sales that er er I know I stopped you right in the middle of your spiel there . |
| 24 | She had advanced a step further towards him until now they were standing almost breast to breast . |
| 25 | The present rating system gives neither accountability to residents nor effective control over local authority spending to Government . ’ |
| 26 | Ignoring advice to head directly north to Canada , Looking Glass insisted upon travelling south to Crow country . |
| 27 | His contemporary , Bert Fudge , had knees that pointed precisely east to west , and toes that pointed north to south . |