Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 2 | He wrapped his mackintosh carefully round the small sketch-pad and fled down the pathway to the church , arriving in the nick of time , for as he closed the heavy arched door behind him , a slow drizzle of rain swept across the village and surrounding fields . |
| 3 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 4 | By now Colonel de Barescut , his Chief-of-Staff , had arrived , and with a thick charcoal Pétain traced out the front to be held by his command . |
| 5 | Thus , one of the major criticisms formulated by the social movements of the 1960s , and by radical groups within socialist and labour parties , was directed against ‘ consensus politics ’ which placed a high value upon the existing parliamentary institutions and played down the commitment to radical changes in the social system . |
| 6 | The town 's Labour MP , Mo Mowlam , and Langbaurgh councillors Brian Roberts and Len Douglass sailed down the Thames to Westminster Bridge accompanied by a flotilla of sailing dinghies . |
| 7 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
| 8 | But when stuff came down the dock to people off , on to a boat , would that be stored in a warehouse first and then go on to the boat or would it be |
| 9 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
| 10 | The track switchbacked and twisted down the escarpment to the valley below . |
| 11 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 12 | From Sicily they sailed up the coastline to Venice together . |
| 13 | In an amiable parody of an interview he once heard being given by Sir Adrian Boult , Gould spelt out the attitude to recording of that older generation : roughly , ‘ I do n't mind doing the occasional recording , old boy — not everyone gets to concerts — and we 'll do our best , but I do n't want any ‘ patching ’ , we must keep the long line intact ’ . |
| 14 | In Stirling , Mr Michael Forsyth , the Scottish health and education minister and the foremost disciple of Thatcherism in Scotland , fought off the challenge to his wafer-thin majority of 548 to increase fractionally his majority to 703 . |
| 15 | Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony , including Wally Fuentes Morrison , and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet . |
| 16 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Bobby Ferguson yesterday threw down the gauntlet to Sunderland 's Welsh international , Colin Pascoe . |
| 18 | SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury threw down the gauntlet to M & S , Tesco and Safeway yesterday with another set of sparkling results . |
| 19 | KEVIN Keegan yesterday threw down the gauntlet to refreshed Newcastle winger Franz Carr . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke threw down the gauntlet to a trio of Cabinet colleagues in the vanguard of demands for deeper spending cuts instead of higher taxes to tackle the projected £50 billion deficit . |
| 21 | Mr Clarke threw down the gauntlet to a trio of Cabinet colleagues in the vanguard of demands for deeper spending cuts instead of higher taxes to tackle the projected £50bn deficit . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose you also turned down the chance to be his girlfriend ? ’ |
| 23 | As soon as he had gone , Emmie raced down the garden to the boathouse . |
| 24 | White-faced , her eyes wide with fright , Christine raced down the bank to the pram . |
| 25 | She shinned down the rope to Jekub 's deck . |
| 26 | When the place passed out or Iranian airspace , the Shah turned over the controls to his pilot Captain Behzad Moezzi , and went back to his suite for lunch with the Queen . |
| 27 | Nigel and Shirley handed over the cheque to matron Ann Teaney . |
| 28 | Regrettably , Ken Mentle handed over the money to Smith and , as well as manager , appointed him club development officer . |
| 29 | The building was provided from the bequest of Mr Kenneth Thelwall ( whose bequest has already funded two lifeboats ) and Mr Christopher Hobson , executor of the estate , handed over the building to the Institution following an address by the Mayor of Poole and Admiral of the Port , Councillor Mrs Anne Sibley . |
| 30 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |