Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place .
2 ‘ She could have gone to friends , or just driven up to London , ’ Fraser defended himself .
3 Over all the years , including these nineteen , some bonds were given to the club but the majority were bequeathed to individuals , either to be kept as an investment out of family sentiment , or possibly sold quietly to Club members , selected as previously described .
4 Christine , who had gained the Brownie Highway Badge , was an excellent writer and reader , and she felt rather grown-up as she wrote out notes for Miss Miggs or carefully read out to her a letter from her nephew .
5 Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ?
6 For example , people working here in acoustics and radiation physics never know which SERC committee will finally examine their applications — some of our recent applications have been to the committees for Biology , Chemistry , Chemical Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Polymer Engineering , the joint SERC/SSRC committee or even sent off to ARC .
7 This drama is often now confused with , or even rendered back to , types of religious ritual in which some of its elements indeed originated .
8 The thirty-year rundown of the Great Central Railway terminus at Marylebone ( a prelude to seemingly inevitable total closure ) , was dramatically slammed into reverse gear on 30 April when BR admitted blossoming Chiltern Line services could not possibly be handled by Paddington , Euston , or even handed over to London Transport .
9 But those on the list who actually applied , as opposed to expressing vague interest , had no way of knowing whether their completed application forms had been weeded out or simply thrown on to the paper mountain along with everyone else .
10 Yet oh so many sparks of phosphorescence yearned for the potency of the denizens of that other realm , or else signalled obliviously to those creatures , blinking their little lamps — to summon the equivalent of sharks , or krakens of twisted intelligence .
11 There was something in his voice that suddenly got through to her , and she felt a little tendril of pleasure unwinding inside .
12 However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland .
13 There was nothing in the girl 's present that remotely matched up to his past .
14 It was frequently used by statesmen — Palmerston , Gladstone — to provide a moral gloss to a foreign policy that actually owed little to principle and much to the pragmatic calculus of the balance of power .
15 Now that too turned out to be fake .
16 On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom .
17 The intricate and narrow ( 5 ; 0.2pc ) filaments of Fig. 6 b are strikingly linear and mostly run parallel to one another .
18 But they stayed the longest in Baldersdale , apart from me of course , and eventually retired down to Hunderthwaite , down near the main road .
19 The system is thoroughly tested and eventually handed over to the user .
20 This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) .
21 Affluent if not always prudent strokeplayer , Greenfield was the first YTS graduate to sign for Sussex , and duly led then to the 2nd XI pennant in 1990 .
22 Weber looked thoughtfully out at , the battle-torn cavern , and slowly reached out to the ship 's telegraph , ringing up the order to start engines .
23 Shiona gripped the steering-wheel and squeezed her eyes shut and slowly counted up to ten .
24 He swung the binoculars towards the ranks of spectators on either side of the 18th fairway , and slowly traversed back to the tee .
25 Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey .
26 The San Giorgio case is also of interest for present purposes in that it accepts that Community law does not prevent a national legal system from disallowing repayment of charges where to do so would entail unjust enrichment of the recipient , in particular where the charges have been incorporated into the price of goods and so passed on to the purchaser .
27 The rendering of figures in action had been developed in pedimental sculpture , and perhaps extended occasionally to an independent group in the later sixth century : a fine marble torso from the Acropolis , under life-size , These us fighting one of his opponents , seems not to be from a pediment .
28 As Rosemary Deem makes clear in the article reproduced here , deliberate and formal distinctions between the education of boys and girls have been made until very recently and only brought formally to a halt through the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act .
29 Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days .
30 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 .
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