Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . |
| 2 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’ |
| 3 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 4 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 5 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 6 | She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck . |
| 7 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 8 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 9 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 10 | At the first pruning , take each stem down to a suitable bud , so that ideally it is reduced to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10 cm ) in length . |
| 11 | Full of hope , I took the watch in to a smart business in the Rue du Rhône , where it was examined by a stately manager . |
| 12 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 13 | When he arrived there were disappointingly few people and he felt rather obvious holding on to a rolled-up newspaper . |
| 14 | He turned the oven on to 250 and put the okra and the edenwort on to a low heat . |
| 15 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 16 | TWO workmen were in hospital last night after falling 18ft through a false roof on to a concrete floor . |
| 17 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 18 | ‘ Stones arranged in heaps , ’ said Fenella , frowning , reining her horse in to a slow walk . |
| 19 | The unraced Rockawhile , Henry Cecil 's first runner of the 1992 Flat season , can get the Newmarket trainer off to a flying start in the Bluebell Fillies ' Stakes ( 4.30 ) . |
| 20 | Although Dragon is only about half the size of Drayton Asia , its superior investment performance has got the bid off to a good start . |
| 21 | Entering the room in a confident and relaxed manner is very important for getting the interview off to a good start . |
| 22 | Why I 'm yes that that might be a bit more complicated because that means we 've got to get a thousand a thousand reject up to a thousand reject ball bearings which are all the same . |
| 23 | When you have received an Offer of Mortgage , to enable a bid up to a maximum agreed limit , a further visit to the property should be made near to the date of Auction , to ensure that everything is in order . |
| 24 | In conclusion , the present study indicates that there is an increasing enterochromaffin like cell density with increasing gastrin concentration up to a certain level , and increasing the gastrin concentration above this level does not lead to further hyperplasia . |
| 25 | In summer the reedbeds resound to the songs of reed and sedge warblers , and in spring up to a dozen bitterns boom mysteriously from the reeds . |
| 26 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 27 | Close-coupled double-symphonic suites are quieter still in operation and a change over to a modern suite may be well worth considering . |
| 28 | I 'll take Harpo/Chico over to a nice quiet corner . ’ |
| 29 | First , I draw out the outline of the motif on to a mylar sheet , with all the outlines for the different areas of colour I want to use . |
| 30 | He scattered these from a window on to a sandy area just in front of the inn door . |