Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 2 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 3 | Continental Airlines ( 0800 776464 ) fly daily from Gatwick to Cancun via Houston , apex return £614 ( Nov ) . |
| 4 | Viva Air ( 071–830 0011 ) fly daily from Heathrow to Alicante , apex return £124 . |
| 5 | Unless one has followed the rug-making process through from clipping to completion , the only way to assess the quality of the wool is to rely on the " feel " of the item and the reputation of the individual weaving group . |
| 6 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 7 | There are grypesh out in force to the north . ’ |
| 8 | As we read our participants ' accounts , the severity of retribution is to be understood against a background of the degree to which they feel let down in relation to their expectations of those they feel they should respect . |
| 9 | But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me |
| 10 | a landlord of premises let together with furniture to a tenant whose term is still unexpired ; if the furniture is wrongfully seized by the sheriff , it is the tenant and not the landlord who can sue for conversion . |
| 11 | Here is the quintessence of Rough Trade , personified by toothless Scottish ex-merchant seamen , clearly chosen not for their specialist knowledge of haute cuisine , but simply because of their sure-footedness on floors that list alternately from port to starboard . |
| 12 | Anchor ice accumulations , being less dense than sea water , break away from time to time and rise to the surface , carrying with them entrapped and frozen plants and animals , which gather in layers under the inshore floes . |
| 13 | Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road . |
| 14 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 15 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 16 | Hold up to needles to estimate number of stitches required then deduct two at each end . |
| 17 | To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures . |
| 18 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 19 | You could , for instance , cut freely from close-up to closeup without the problems of jumps in the action which can spoil wider shots . |
| 20 | Gould made use of the fact that in the dark the bees orient their dance to gravity but if they can see the sun they dance directly with respect to it . |
| 21 | It complains that prices vary widely from country to country . |
| 22 | Plasma concentrations after oral dosage vary widely from individual to individual , and after a single 16 mg dose , recovery in the stool varies from 14 to 49% in volunteers ( Glaxo Group Research Ltd , unpublished data ) . |
| 23 | The first is that an advertisement is , at least in some sense , an artistic creation : people 's judgements of art are virtually always subjective , and vary widely from person to person . |
| 24 | The reported figures for failure of sclerotherapy vary widely from 5% to 60% , but this variation can be partly explained by the lack of a universal definition of ‘ failure of treatment ’ . |
| 25 | The levels of disturbance allowance given vary widely from organisation to organisation . |
| 26 | Executive fashions vary little from year to year but the most popular fashion statement of the Eighties — huge shoulder pads — are definitely out . |
| 27 | The current ( 1980s ) rankings of the major brewers vary somewhat from product to product : |
| 28 | Numbers reaching N W Europe vary greatly from year to year . |
| 29 | Individual risks vary greatly from job to job and from industry to industry . |
| 30 | The streams of some hanging valleys drop down over waterfalls to the main valley . |