Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 30-year-old Londoner , son of the late Graham Hill , steered his Canon Williams Renault on to the front row of the provisional grid alongside pole man and team-mate Alain Prost with a brilliantly controlled display of driving on the treacherous Interlagos track . |
| 2 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 3 | Shop assistants at Boots in Spennymoor have voted their colleague Sylvia Bulmer through to the next round of the Boots Assistant of the Year contest . |
| 4 | Defries 's urgent voice brought Bernice back to the immediate problem . |
| 5 | Attempts at privatisation , designed to push SOEs on to the global bandwagon , have often been accompanied by an easing of equity limitations in other sectors . |
| 6 | I was going to put Dave Reynolds on to the Jenner part of this ; will that be okay with you ? ’ |
| 7 | Similar settlement histories have occurred in the Gangetic plain and Doabs of northern India ( Schlich 1889 : 187–238 ) and Brazil up to the present day . |
| 8 | Her voice faltered , but then strengthened : ‘ I hate the thought that my illness took Anthony back to the black market . ’ |
| 9 | At the end of the session , I brought Maxine back to the present time and out of the hypnotic state and asked her what she felt . |
| 10 | Fred Archer , Jem Mason , Steve Donoghue , Gordon Richards , John Francome and Lester Piggott up to the present day . |
| 11 | Cloth manufacture continued at Dunkirk Mills up to the late 1880s when , after seven decades in the Playne family , the mills finally closed . |
| 12 | Prussian canal-building projects meant that by 1914 Danzig was linked to a network of waterways that allowed inland trade with the Rhine , Bordeaux , Le Havre , Brussels , Antwerpen , and northern Germany up to the Danish border . |
| 13 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 14 | Finally Kaas ordered his torturers to stop and they dragged Adam down to the wooden chalet and threw him in with Billie . |
| 15 | Mungo breathed in the rich animal smell as they followed Mr Zamoyski through to the back room . |
| 16 | It was a source of great pride to Leslie that he was able to see this final phase of the war in Africa through to the very end . |
| 17 | No one replied and Julia took Minnie up to the dying woman . |
| 18 | ‘ He says he 's here to take Anna back to the gipsy camp . ’ |
| 19 | I wonder if I could bring Mr Williamson back to the basic methodology of calculation of the overall requirement share . |
| 20 | Defries looked disgusted , but she helped Ace manhandle Daak on to the retractable steps . |
| 21 | Once the early morning jobs were done there was a relaxing of discipline , and when the family returned from church everyone on the staff , from Mr Priddy down to the newest domestic , was invited to the second-best parlour to receive a small present . |
| 22 | As it was , alongside the battering ram of Scottish public opinion came the well-directed arrows of Charter 88 's Democracy Day to force the key questions of liberalising and decentralising the governance of Britain on to the political map . |
| 23 | Now Michael has lured Alfred down to the small theatre that he runs . |
| 24 | The canal can be readily followed from the river near Canonica d'Adda through to the Central Station where it peters out beside Via Tirano . |
| 25 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |
| 26 | The results of isolationism in terms of human suffering were massive emigration ( some 20,000 every year to Britain up to the 1960s ) , and industrial and commercial underdevelopment until the late 1950s . |
| 27 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 28 | Whatever the ‘ social costs ’ of political and economic development in Japan up to the 1940s , it is difficult to find widespread sustained resistance to , or non-cooperation with , the social value system . |
| 29 | Hunter escorted the strapped Jones up to the royal box … and HRH Prince Philip asked Hunter … |
| 30 | The mace , or goedendag , was a weapon used throughout Europe up to the sixteenth century . |