Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 2 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 3 | With wrong side of skirt facing you , pick up ‘ stitches ’ from half the top of skirt , putting them on to the needles that are in WP . |
| 4 | Someone must have buried them when they were too frightened to hand them in to the police station . |
| 5 | And all I say in response is , please get up , write on petitions , send them in to M Ps , send them in to the unions . |
| 6 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 7 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 8 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 9 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 10 | The rise of the Greens had placed the SPD in a difficult position , in that any attempt to capture moderate votes might alienate existing party supporters and drive them over to the Greens . |
| 11 | It was claimed that trustees of the NUM ( the President , the Vice-President and the Secretary ) were in breach of their duties and the High Court ordered them to recover these assets and hand them over to the sequestrators . |
| 12 | Given the tension here was one of humiliation , that can be sufficient in itself to sustain the momentum , especially as this workhouse scene comes at a critical point in the sequence structure — for they have already in an earlier lesson experienced the well-intentioned caring of the ‘ lady ’ who housed these girls out of pity but was obliged to hand them over to the authorities . |
| 13 | To hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 14 | Harold Macmillan 's diary entry describing his meeting at Klagenfurt on 13 May ( only a day after the last group had surrendered ) states that he was informed that " among the surrendered Germans are about 40,000 Cossacks and " White " Russians with their wives and children " , and he notes that " to hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 15 | He was nicknamed ‘ The Resurrection Man ’ because he would row up and down the river by night , fishing up floating bodies — and picking their pockets before he handed them over to the police and claimed his reward . |
| 16 | To craft the pots so patiently from earth and water and then deliver them over to the mercies of fire and air . ’ |
| 17 | When he handed them over to the Syrians , the major received a special word of thanks from representatives of the country which would , ten years later , help the Americans to bomb Libya . |
| 18 | Put me through to the police . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Put me through to the police office , please , ’ he said to someone in the outer office . |
| 20 | Which brings us to one vital and final point on the matter of taking our fauna aloft and then casting them off to the winds not knowing exactly where they are going to land . |
| 21 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 22 | They are greedy for Humans , the sidh , and if they can once trap you with their music they will carry you down to the caves beneath the sea and steal one of your five senses and tear out your soul . ’ |
| 23 | I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’ |
| 24 | As much as I would like to hand you over to the police , I have no choice but to keep my suspicions to myself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I ought to hand you over to the police . |
| 26 | Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’ |
| 27 | If there is anything capable of lifting you up to the gates of heaven , then that is it . |
| 28 | Set in the heart of Newmarket , the horseracing capital of the world , the recently extended museum 's six galleries are packed with exhibits that will take you back to the origins of racing … when Charles II rode in matches across the glorious heath . |
| 29 | But can I just refer you back to the words of P B G three where it says quite clearly in paragraph thirty three . |
| 30 | Now part of the er exercise which the marketing exec does when he or she round to the surgeries is to provide them with a certain amount of information of course . |