Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other typical signs indicating a problem with sharp teeth are , as already mentioned , the evasion of the bit and the horse quidding while eating ( food drops out of the mouth ) ; nodding while being ridden , hanging on the bit to one side , ie pulling on one rein and , in more extreme cases , rearing and bolting. teeth should be left until they are mature . |
| 2 | ‘ Even bringing down the charges to £4 means the council will be incurring a £40,000 loss . |
| 3 | I decided to try the Power Tool in two ways : the first using a stack , with the amp set to full shred ; the second with a Vox AC30 on full tilt , but with the Power Tool bringing down the volume to bedroom level . |
| 4 | Walking down the Promenade to the Albion Hotel for luncheon , with Samuel striding ahead like Stonewall Jackson , and Gwendolen having found an apparent soul mate in Lord Beddington , Oliver found himself forced to walk next to Angelina . |
| 5 | SUPERMAN artist Joe Shuster , who lost millions by signing away the rights to the comic book hero he helped create , has died in Los Angeles aged 78 . |
| 6 | Conservative Central Office has been inundated with jittery reports from regional Tory organisers , but is banking on driving home the message to a receptive audience that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would effectively open the door of Downing Street to Mr Kinnock . |
| 7 | Information technology is playing , and will increasingly continue to play , a major role in opening up the curriculum to people with disabilities . |
| 8 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 9 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 10 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 11 | In opening up the debate to the floor , Inez stressed hopes for democratic discussion , respect for differing and varying views . |
| 12 | In what he called ‘ a new architecture for a new era ’ , Mr Baker outlined closer co-operation between Western Europe and the US which would bind the West closer together while at the same time ‘ opening up the doors to the East ’ . |
| 13 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 14 | Measures aimed at opening up the economy to foreign investment and the privatization of state companies continued apace throughout November . |
| 15 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 16 | The Doctor ignored them , climbing up the scaffolding to the roof of the dome . |
| 17 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 18 | Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close . |
| 19 | After that , you can expect Leeds mail to come surging down the wires to your computer every day of the week , and aim to join in the talk whenever you can . |
| 20 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 21 | Looking up the hillside to the north from this point , the splendid cairn of Josse Pike can be seen prominently . |
| 22 | For a child who was reliant upon charity it was difficult to escape the determining rules which governed the public understanding of ‘ training up the child to be the man ( for woman ) ’ . |
| 23 | Chrissie shouted to him , oi , where are your Beatle boots then ? and started bashing out the rhythm to ‘ Glad All Over ’ on the table . |
| 24 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
| 25 | The Doctor let the wall hanging fall back into place , and hurried out , turning down the hall to the bedroom . |
| 26 | ’ We 're not turning over the phetam to the FedPol , ’ I told her . |
| 27 | But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down . |
| 28 | The directors of the firm kindly gave B U permission to borrow a Tacker for the exhibition and after Le Leicester branch arranged a temporary replacement , Taffy began working , cleaning up the machine to showroom condition . |
| 29 | Cross over this bridge and follow the broad trackway on the other side leading up the valley to Scandale Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 30 | After pulling up the curtain to the desired width , tie the cords neatly but do not cut them off . |