Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A further 42 per cent is spread on farmland and 23 per cent is dumped in landfills or piped out to sea .
2 This is easy enough with record sheets and drawings , which can simply be photocopied or put on to microfilm , but is far more of a problem with a photographic record comprising hundreds or thousands of slides and photographs .
3 It can not be otherwise with the approach of death ; whether we go on pilgrimage with Raleigh or put out to sea with Tennyson , the metaphor of travel is one with which the poets have made us familiar .
4 But to others , he was a stubborn old man , in constant physical pain , who harassed his opponents , drove his ministers to resign and clung ignominiously to power after losing his once-crushing parliamentary majority .
5 He lowered his hand and gazed out to sea again .
6 She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer , sharpened her pencil and got down to work .
7 It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business .
8 That would be a very good thing , she shouted back , but her inner self did n't agree and , muttering under her breath at her unruly self , she pushed unanswerable questions to the back of her mind and got down to business .
9 I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time .
10 This is then drawn full-size and traced on to acetate film which is put on to a bed of clay covering the board .
11 The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero .
12 Except for the two hours when you went out and drove round to Boundary Drive . ’
13 Aaron Freeman 's ordeal began after his mum dropped him outside and drove off to work .
14 We were given maps of the reserve and told how to census the songsters by marking the grid position of each singing bird .
15 This was , and is , one of the largest machine shops in Europe and geared exclusively to aerospace and military manufacture .
16 He jumped from the cart and came straight to Den .
17 Ebert marched to the centre of the room and came smartly to attention , lowering his head respectfully , waiting for his T'ang to speak .
18 I just slipped out , walked down a corridor , out through a side exit and came down to home .
19 But we got over it and I finished my school at fourteen and came back to work at home .
20 " After five days Rabscuttle slipped out again with the children and came back to El-ahrairah .
21 Then I took the bag to my boat and sailed out to sea .
22 By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them .
23 After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners .
24 Under the bizarre ruling belongings equal to the value of those stolen were taken and handed over to charity .
25 They soon became irritated by their inability to capture it , and turned back to diplomacy .
26 Ralph Pottinger boarded her and she was brought clear and returned safely to Challenge .
27 Pictures of cats made out of synthetic material and stuck on to plastic plates are available in virtually every store .
28 Juliet picked up the orange folder and walked down to Room G at the far end of the ward .
29 Then the wind rose , fanning the few sparks left alive in the brushwood ; the fire flared into life again and gave them light to see by , and they broke apart from their terrible embraces and sprang off to blade-length and lance-length .
30 The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction .
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