Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly . |
| 2 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 3 | We cut away to business with Leonard . |
| 4 | For this reason , we will not attempt an international analysis but focus closer to home on the situation in UK schools . |
| 5 | But König 's interest in schools spread predictably to provision for handicapped people beyond school age . |
| 6 | These results owe less to diversification of any kind than to capital gains in the market for corporate control . |
| 7 | The naming of tunes in Gaelic dancing has as much to do with the whim of the moment as with anything portentous : ‘ Upstairs in a Tent ’ , or ‘ The Clock on the Dresser ’ , or ‘ The Walls of Limerick , owe more to whimsy in the kitchen on the night than to any attempt by the musician to give his tune immortality . |
| 8 | In partnership with the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , we look forward to building on the success of the first year 's issues and to the increasing use of the magazine as a means of effective two-way communications . |
| 9 | LOOK FORWARD to food with zest appeal , meals to make ahead and accessories to transform your home |
| 10 | I look forward to hearing of a way out of this problem that is keeping the Boys Brigade in Waltham Forest on dry land . |
| 11 | PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning . |
| 12 | We look forward to summer under glass |
| 13 | I shall table a parliamentary question about that and I look forward to confirmation of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said . |
| 14 | Examiners , when they identify reasons for failure , refer repeatedly to lack of skill and aptitude in problem solving , judgment , and communication . |
| 15 | Turn right to gateway into the woods and descend grassy path to fence and stile . |
| 16 | And we go finally to Rosemary of Cambridge and she would like to plant two nice shrub rose bushes . |
| 17 | You testify before the Commission tomorrow and I take the kids and go home to Mother in Milwaukee ! ’ |
| 18 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 19 | Many workers proceed directly to examination of thin sections , but there is a great deal of information to be obtained from examining rock slices and cut faces , particularly in the case of limestones and sandstones . |
| 20 | It does n't mean The Wedding Present are boring people who go straight to bed after a show . |
| 21 | In next field keep well to left of trees ahead by bearing quarter left ( soon fence away to right comes into view ) . |
| 22 | and you think well to hell with it , they should be , come down on hard . |
| 23 | They are the primary means by which cells regulate their internal pH and they also contribute importantly to regulation of cell volume and possibly , cell proliferation . |
| 24 | In terms of social importance , festivals contribute greatly to cohesion within the community and provide welcome sources of entertainment . |
| 25 | The statistics given relate mainly to uptake of the different levels and types of provision offered by the Council . |
| 26 | ‘ If you are hit at all , you retire immediately to HQ for a penalty of five minutes . |
| 27 | In Russia , Poland and other east European countries , women still bake spice cakes and take then to church for blessing at Easter . |
| 28 | Such decisions relate primarily to satisfaction of the contribution conditions , but the legislation gives them competence on specific questions at many points . |
| 29 | Such compromise would , he suggested , lead inexorably to censorship to ‘ protect Muslim sensibilities against gratuitous provocation ’ . |
| 30 | These thoughts lead quickly to avoidance of the feared situation and include , ‘ I 'll be OK if I run home now ’ , ‘ Get away and you 'll be all right ’ . |