Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welding a bonding cable on to the new rail . |
| 2 | If you want a conventional light switch to control the new lights , run the sub-circuit cable to a four-terminal junction box first , and connect the new switch cable tin to it before running cable on to the new lights . |
| 3 | ‘ His name is Matthew Blake , ’ Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge . |
| 4 | Ybreska vaulted over the low , crumbling wall surrounding the old churchyard on to the rough pitted track which led towards Tbilisi . |
| 5 | This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments . |
| 6 | Instead his lips compressed , as if he were physically stemming a tide of words , and he slung his briefcase on to the bare chart table . |
| 7 | Maybe fate had to give you a shove on to the right path . ’ |
| 8 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
| 9 | A ten week preparation course on to the Open University programme leading to the diploma in Health and Social Welfare starts . |
| 10 | SAVE 's proposal was to transfer the ‘ air rights ’ of the old building on to the lorry-park site . |
| 11 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 12 | Many aspects of the diplomatic organisation of western and central Europe as it existed by the beginning of the seventeenth century continued with little essential change down to the French Revolution and indeed beyond . |
| 13 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 14 | He regrets that ‘ language , which adapts itself for the most part only to the common uses of life , has provided us with no single-worded or immediate designation ’ for the impression . |
| 15 | But this does not go far enough for us and er shortly we will be moving another amendment which will take the council 's budget down to the standard spending assessment and I will speak to that er when I come to move that amendment . |
| 16 | Barney gave in to her pleas , and agreed to transport the canoe down to the Little Avon river on the roof-rack of the Armstrong after lunch . |
| 17 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 18 | I ran to the T-junction on to the main road . |
| 19 | The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock . |
| 20 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 21 | Words from the letters banged about in Thérèse 's head , just above her eyebrows she pictured them , as she dripped melted butter from the little saucepan on to the yellow puddle of egg yolks . |
| 22 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |
| 23 | She bundled Dot on to the front seat with rugs up to the chin . |
| 24 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
| 25 | Doyle swerved , running the car on to the right hand verge , and braked hard . |
| 26 | Pushing open the heavy door , she began to climb the stairs to the second floor , admiring the way in which the stained-glass windows on each hall-landing cast triangles of coloured light on to the worn stone steps . |
| 27 | He once shone a surprising shaft of original light on to the economic scene . |
| 28 | He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle . |
| 29 | Using a slight pushing action , he shifts the weight on to the extended right leg while at the same time skipping with his left foot towards the extended right leg and almost simultaneously jumping off the ground with the right leg . |
| 30 | Outside , another fierce white explosion of water burst over the side , carried by the screaming banshee of a wind on to the armoured glass plate of the bridge . |