Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 2 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 3 | yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group |
| 4 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 5 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 6 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 7 | Erm , can I take you on to the next one which is twelve B two . |
| 8 | ‘ I will have a few casts here , Blair , then follow you down to the next pool , ’ I suggested . |
| 9 | Then , as the heel touches the ground , lock your ankle and shift your weight forward with the knee bent , rocking forward onto the toes and using them to push you off to the next step . |
| 10 | I 'd like to just bring you back to the first question you asked , which was how do you define sexual harassment . |
| 11 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 12 | A modern Roman Catholic authority recounts a story which brings them up to the fourth century — the time of Constantine . |
| 13 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 14 | ‘ Take me up to the twentieth floor , quickly , ’ she said . |
| 15 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 16 | Then they pushed her , from one man to another , making her stumble as each man greedily explored her body before shoving her on to the next man . |
| 17 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 18 | How could they , she thought in sudden sentiment , and the anger carried her on to the next street . |
| 19 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 20 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 21 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 22 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 23 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 24 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 25 | As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list . |
| 26 | You should take it in but you did n't — just rolled it on to the next beat . |
| 27 | Police folklore tells of one officer who , having found a dead body on the street at the end of his duty , shifted it on to the next beat . |
| 28 | When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person . |
| 29 | For anyone that has not seen this effect , the lace carriage is set to ‘ F ’ and instead of taking one stitch off and transferring it to the next needle , the carriage ‘ hops ’ the stitch across from the one it is on and hooks it on to the next one . |
| 30 | Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row . |