Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After a few heart-stopping moments the old engine coughed into life , and he managed to accelerate the loaded vehicle through the flames out to safety . |
2 | Mr Major won a decisive Commons majority for the ratification Bill , despite another Tory rebellion in the year-long battle with his party 's Euro-sceptics to steer the measure through to law . |
3 | The historic decision came after Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell referred the case back to Court of Appeal on the grounds that the sentence was ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
4 | An experienced headhunter could narrow the field down to short-list stage much more quickly and cost-effectively , Tagg argued . |
5 | Officers were yesterday interviewing the woman , and Inspector Barry Jakeman appealed to anyone who was at Farley Mount in the hour up to midnight to contact police . |
6 | The Council has a policy now of bringing all its properties up to date , but priority because they 're , bringing the houses up to date will take some eight years , priority is given to elderly citizens and people with medical needs . |
7 | New recruits to keep the militia up to establishment , and to allow longer-serving members to go home , were selected by ballot . |
8 | Yeah are you keeping the index up to date now ? |
9 | Literaturnaya Gazeta yesterday brought the story up to date with an emotionally devastating report . |
10 | The original edition in 1960 , ended the story in 1880 ; the new edition , revised and rewritten by Dr Leslie Hunt , brings the story up to date in all senses , relying on original historical research by Hunt himself and by many contributors to Johnson Matthey 's journal Platinum Metals Review ( founded 1957 ) , and on Hunt 's knowledge of modern industry It is lavishly illustrated , partly in colour . |
11 | But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity . |
12 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
13 | The group nurses the animals back to health at Rossett , near Chester , before finding a good home for them . |
14 | The group nurses the animals back to health at Rossett , near Wrexham , before finding a good home for them . |
15 | Passing through humid cornfields back to town brings the mind around to separation . |
16 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
17 | The dispute took place after the English victory at Agincourt and at a time of growing alliance between Henry V and the Emperor Sigismund against the French , and there is little doubt that the principal French spokesman on the subject , Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , was largely concerned with cutting the enemy down to size . |
18 | The switch back to Creole for the single word " though " is particularly striking . |
19 | You know , you get the house straight and send the kids off to school . |
20 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
21 | Nae way are we doing it now when we we 've got the scaffolding up to gan up . |
22 | The last of these three exercises begins by raising the legs up to waist height , keeping the back straight and the eyes looking to the front . |
23 | However , the Baltimore was a good aircraft and it needed a direct hit to knock one down and so , despite our damage , I was able to get the aircraft back to base . ’ |
24 | Sterling is looking to part with one or more of the aircraft in an attempt to recover some of the costs incurred in bringing the aircraft back to civilisation . |
25 | His son Frederick had written to say he was coming on leave and Mr Evans kept busy , tidying the shop and getting the books up to date . |
26 | Bromley claimed that he then handed the books over to Alderman ( later |
27 | It is much more his business to stir up curiosity than to insist on acceptances. , Pound as critic cuts the critic down to size ; which is , one may think , a pressing need , now , in 1984 . |
28 | Grace quickly rowed the boat out to sea again . |
29 | My master went back to his friends and we took the boat out to sea . |
30 | ‘ Switch the engine on to charge . ’ |