Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Track descends ; 150 yds before bottom of slope , where track bends to the left and immediately before copse begins on right , cross ditch on right and bear half left on other side , keeping close to copse on your left . |
| 2 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 3 | For this reason , we will not attempt an international analysis but focus closer to home on the situation in UK schools . |
| 4 | Mrs Stych wrung her hands behind the reporter 's back , and wished passionately she could run home to Mother on the pig farm ; she longed suddenly for the smell of hens and milk , for a place where nobody had to keep up appearances or be other than what they were . |
| 5 | Ianthe was disconcerted , even a little shocked , to see the bottles of milk still standing outside the door of her uncle 's Mayfair rectory when she arrived there to luncheon on Quinquagesima Sunday . |
| 6 | I used to look forward to commentary on a Sat. afternoon , but it seems such a tie as Ipswich at home can not even produce a goal never mind a win . |
| 7 | In partnership with the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , we look forward to building on the success of the first year 's issues and to the increasing use of the magazine as a means of effective two-way communications . |
| 8 | The US space shuttle Discovery returned safely to Earth on Dec. 9 after a seven-day mission which included the deployment of a top secret US Air Force reconnaissance DOD-1 satellite and unclassified experiments with an Army laser receiver and US Navy camera system . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm glad that child 's coming here to dinner on Sunday , ’ Eddie Hogan said . |
| 10 | Insignia is believed to have spoken informally to Sun on the matter . |
| 11 | Insignia is believed to have spoken informally to Sun on the matter . |
| 12 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 13 | Recovery in the UK gathered momentum during the second quarter as the UK portfolio continued to respond positively to action on rates and operating costs . |
| 14 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 15 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Although the shuttle has returned safely to Earth on each of its six nights so far , the orbiter managed on its most recent mission to nudge the tracking and data-relay satellite it was carrying into the wrong position . |