Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 2 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 3 | In addition to the barristers in practice , a considerable number have used the Bar as a stepping stone or crutch leading them on to other things . |
| 4 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 5 | Therefore , they will be predisposed to choose applicants from those social classes , thereby reinforcing their examination success and leading them on to greater success than ever . |
| 6 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 7 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 8 | Just pass them on to some friend of yours or ? |
| 9 | An alternative for viewing and drawing small peels or segments of larger peels is to mount them in 35 mm transparency mounts ( preferably with glass both sides ) and to project them on to white paper or card , on which tracings can be made . |
| 10 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 11 | Road signs were supposed to have been erected at the mouth of the carriageway as soon as Benin 's car had passed through , warning motorists of an impending dynamite blast and rerouting them on to another section of the motorway . |
| 12 | As noted earlier , in addition to treating patients themselves or referring them on to another agency , GPs had a third option , that of effectively doing nothing . |
| 13 | These were being lowered to the roof-top , where Repo Men guided them on to powered sleds and steered them into the lift . |
| 14 | Their sedentary way of life , the fact that individual families could become units of production and could not only store considerable surpluses , but pass them on to subsequent generations , now meant that the old egalitarian and cooperative values of the hunter-gatherers were gone for ever . |
| 15 | Try tracing them on to thin card . |
| 16 | For a time she became a pony-dealer , buying horses from tinkers and selling them on to English buyers . |
| 17 | He is a good player and it has boosted everyone , but it has not spurred me on to greater efforts . |
| 18 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |
| 19 | ‘ I had a tough childhood and it spurred me on to great heights . ’ |
| 20 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 21 | She 's got to hand them in to this lady on Tuesday . |
| 22 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 23 | The Benefits Agency is trying to play down the NAO findings , putting them down to administrative delays rather than errors . |
| 24 | Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners . |
| 25 | If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure . |
| 26 | He clued me in to some strategy . |
| 27 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |
| 28 | I just remember them wheeling me down to this room and going to sleep . |
| 29 | is possible to identify a syndrome of implicit assumptions in many lesser developed countries ' conservation policies and in more academic and general commentaries on the subject , and to follow them through to particular elements in explicit policy . |
| 30 | What say I take them over to that monastery on the moor — with some money — and ask the monks to say some masses ? ’ |