Example sentences of "[adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Meredith had been a child , her father always read A Christmas Carol aloud to his family on Christmas Eve . |
| 2 | I boarded an elevator and shot up alone to their office on the 32nd floor . |
| 3 | Dylan Thomas immortalised such machinery in Draper Mog Edwards ' soliloquy in Under Milk Wood : I have come to take you away to my emporium on the hill , where the change hums on wires . |
| 4 | Rome , for instance , was sited on the first crossing of the River Tiber , controlling the route from Latium to Etruria ; Corinth was a colonial power in the archaic period thanks largely to her position on the Isthmus ( p. 95 ) ; and explanations of the greatness of Byzantium , from Polybius book iv to Gibbon , have begun with geography . |
| 5 | The accuracy of the tablet is matched to the Spectrum , the grid inside the tablet 's surface consists of a wire mesh 176 by 256 , so the movement of the stylus on the screen corresponds exactly to its motion on the surface of the Grafpad . |
| 6 | The Government recently announced the establishment of a further dozen environmentally sensitive areas , which included one close to my constituency on the south downs . |
| 7 | FURTHER to your piece on the leopard trade ban ( Echo March 7 ) , it appears you took the trouble to consult the views of Lynx . |
| 8 | Further to your item on trade name registration ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 79 ) I understood that if the trade name consisted of common or garden words then another company using the same name could not object . |
| 9 | Go home to your hut on the lonely shore and wait for what fortune will come to you . " |
| 10 | It contributed also to his stress on ‘ The Unity of European Culture ’ , though ever since ‘ Tradition and the Individual Talent ’ Eliot had been preoccupied with ‘ the mind of Europe ’ . |
| 11 | It keeps well to its focus on the individual 's relationship to society , and sustains the comparisons . |
| 12 | Having done that , it reaches one leg across to its equivalent on the other side , removes the accumulated pollen from the comb with a stiff brush that sprouts from the end of the leg and transfers it into a deep bowl lying on the outer surface of the opposite thigh . |
| 13 | This is bound to upset things a bit ’ wrote Mozart lightheartedly to his father on 27 December 1777 . |
| 14 | On Tuesday the eighth of February as I understand it that meeting then will report to a Council meeting of the Council , so I would not wish to put forward the suggested resolutions that are on the order paper , er I think I would want to suggest to you ladies and gentlemen for decisions today to whether you wish or not and then I would suggest that the appropriate decision is to await the of the City additional Council and therefore bring this matter forward to our Committee on March the twenty ninth . |
| 15 | He was in fact almost looking forward to his ride on Bones . |
| 16 | If , at Z Press , the editors at Layer 111 find and develop manuscripts into books with market potential , it is their general editor at Layer IV who fits those books into the press 's overall list , who thinks ahead to their position on next year 's list and later allocates resources to their production and marketing , and who makes projections about the publishing and book-buying trends of the next two to five years . |
| 17 | Erm and that I think , the response therefore to your position on financial figures for the contingency fund is if you sort the government out we might be able to . |