Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another fundamental question resurfaced : was the MacQuillan killing a personal matter or linked entirely to the man 's business or political activities ? |
| 2 | For this reason , when games theorists talk about the Iterated or Repeated Prisoner 's Dilemma game , they always assume that the end of the game is unpredictable , or known only to the banker . |
| 3 | Should they not be picked up , the paddlers made for a second rendezvous ( phase five ) further offshore or headed back to the beach to lie up for the following night , when the submarine would come to a different rendezvous . |
| 4 | Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper . |
| 5 | Once revved up to the standard , frenetic pitch of activity , one day becomes a limitless bank account with which you can do everything … and anything . |
| 6 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 7 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 8 | Plastic Lunch boxes , food storage containers , etc , may melt if stacked close to the heating elements . |
| 9 | If streets are to be seized from the dominance of ‘ canned ’ humans and given back to the ‘ fresh ’ ones , a commitment to a positive policy of encouraging walking throughout the city is inescapable . |
| 10 | You want er you want a letter carried by hand and given in to the hand of Douglas MacArthur ? |
| 11 | This is available as a white powder which is mixed with water and painted on to the concrete . |
| 12 | So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day . |
| 13 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 14 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 15 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 16 | The Operator Terminal must be specified , using the terminal name ( eg. TTA6 : ) if connected directly to the host node or the LAT port address ( eg. LTAnnnn ) , if connected via a Decserver , as described above . |
| 17 | ‘ It will open if tugged sharply to the right . ’ |
| 18 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 20 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 21 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 22 | The Tory party 's working party on local government — including Bearsden and Milngavie district council , one of the three Tory district councils — proposes that education , social work , housing , the police , fire , water , sewerage and strategic planning should be removed from local government and transferred either to the Secretary of State or to local prosperous companies , or that they should be privatised . |
| 23 | The text to be typeset was displayed as a pattern of dots on a high resolution screen and transferred optically to the photographic paper , digital typesetting was born . |
| 24 | you see we have to be a bit careful because what happens if we closed down right and transferred out to the field |
| 25 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 26 | The " furniture " was then to be arranged into a design for the room and drawn on to the grid . |
| 27 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 28 | ‘ They 're here , ’ Trent told Mariana and called back to the bedroom : ‘ Mister President … ’ |
| 29 | He raised his left hand briefly in a kind of silent salutation , then strode to the comer of the colonnade , leaving me with my formed words unspoken , and called back to the cottage . |
| 30 | Spooning the garlic and ginger paste into the snapper and over their skin , he dropped the first three fish on to the grill and called down to the other Latinos to bring plates and cutlery from the galley . |