Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meisel helped launch Linda Evangelista on to the road to superstardom , and it was Von Unwerth who captured Claudia Schiffer 's sex kitten quality and used it in the Guess advertising campaign which made the model famous . |
| 2 | Instructed on 6th January 1877 to bring the Nez Perce on to the reservation within ‘ a reasonable time ’ , Monteith set an overeager deadline of 1st April . |
| 3 | He opened the rear door and folded Goldman on to the seat ; his legs trailed into the road and Elliott tucked them up on the seat . |
| 4 | In the US election , commentators are bemoaning the lack of international issues , but they are still markedly more present than here : President George Bush and Bill Clinton are arguing over how and when to help the former Soviet states , Clinton is proposing to allow Japan and Germany on to the Security Council of the UN , all candidates have a figure for American troop presence in Europe , ranging from Bush 's 150,000 to Jerry Brown 's 1,000 , with a European force of 1,000 stationed in the US . |
| 5 | All that was necessary to bring it on in more or less its full force was the sight of the Bible , its cover or open page , or its mere name , or the sight of a church , or the sound of any bell ringing solemnly , from Big Ben down to the bell of the Sunday muffin men . |
| 6 | I sent Peggy down to the village for yeast and old Meg was at the baker 's , first time in months , and she says her master 's back . ’ |
| 7 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 8 | Hartlepool Rovers are unchanged for the visit to Northern , but call former Darlington full back David Glendenning on to the bench . |
| 9 | At this the stranger knight grew angry , and he leaned down from his horse and lifted Neva on to the saddle . |
| 10 | In the early years of the republic these were factors of no great consequence , but they have assumed great importance since the movement of the United States on to the world stage in the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Suddenly he decided to take a chance : somehow they would get Therese on to the stage in that ridiculous boy 's costume and let her sing . |
| 12 | They followed Molly on to the launch , hitching up their skirts as she did as they swung over the side , taking their places beside her , feeling strange and excited and apprehensive . |
| 13 | The tone brought Millie on to the floor and standing before Aggie , saying , ‘ I … |
| 14 | But mum brought Kylie along to the audition as well … and she happened to get it . ’ |
| 15 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 16 | At last Anthony allowed David in to the sickroom . |
| 17 | Later , David pulled on Clare 's towelling bathrobe and led Josh down to the kitchen . |
| 18 | The Tyne was heavily polluted , from about Prudhoe down to the sea , but after rain , salmon swam upstream in the clean water on top of the flood . |
| 19 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 20 | Get Dr Burney over to the mortuary . |
| 21 | The next 12 miles from Sheriff Hutton to Coneysthorpe makes its way via the hamlet of Stittenham over to the village of Terrington . |
| 22 | In any event , a principal exponent of that theoretical position argues that in practice , in the United States up to the year 2000 at least , the technology will cause net job creation . |
| 23 | The Zwolferhorn gondola takes you directly from St Gilgen up to the top of the Zwolferhorn mountain . |
| 24 | Selkirk talked to the captain for a while in a language which he later explained was Erse , the tongue of the Isles , before taking Corbett back to the cabin . |
| 25 | He beckoned Corbett back to the table . |
| 26 | It had taken £50,000 to bring Bobby back to the Palace from Leicester , but it was money well spent , for his presence was regarded by many as one of the major factors in Palace 's 1972 survival — and we recouped f 12,000 of it when Bobby bustled off to join Pompey just after Christmas . |
| 27 | Everything happened very quickly after he had got Maisie back to the house . |
| 28 | An imperious wave of the hand summoned a serf to take fitzAlan 's horse , and with another apologetic smile de Villiers began to guide Isabel over to the castle forebuilding . |
| 29 | Hydra sprawls from the boundary of Canis Minor through to the south of Corvus and Virgo . |
| 30 | " Keep an eye on our friends , " he muttered and while Brady took up position beside the door , Tom helped Patrick over to the bar . |