Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 2 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 3 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 4 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 5 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 6 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 7 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 8 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 9 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 10 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 11 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 12 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 13 | So , for example , someone met initially at work may be brought home to a meal , or arrangements may be made to go out to the theatre , perhaps . |
| 14 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 15 | A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date . |
| 16 | But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States . |
| 17 | And and and and across the board there has been a cut of er , er of of of just below fifteen per cent , that that the that er er , our cut is forty five per cent , and and I mean , it er , it it it does er er create problems , there 's no doubt about it , and that I I got the letter from er which er , Rod instructed to come along to the department to me yesterday , in fact , I did refer very briefly to it , 'cos I 'm gon na just before the meeting that er er it it sets out saying that it was a very generous set settlement for ninety-three , ninety-four . |
| 18 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 19 | Could metal ions be made to stick on to the outside of the fullerene football ? |
| 20 | She secured her garage door and , having decided to walk round to the front of the building to find out what Naylor was so furious about , she turned around — and found she had no need to go anywhere . |
| 21 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 22 | Where a decision is made to remit back to the licensing board , the interlocutor should include any specification or modification required under subs . |
| 23 | In so far as the polytechnics today do in fact offer a wide range of advanced courses on different bases of study , they can also be said to live up to the description of being ‘ comprehensive ’ in that respect . |
| 24 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 25 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 26 | However , the monopoly granted extends back to the priority date , which is the time from which damages can be assessed should the patent be infringed , although legal proceedings can not be commenced until the patent has been granted . |
| 27 | Now that the party can no longer call on state finances , it will have to streamline its bureaucracy , and has already decided to hand back to the nation all superfluous assets , including the party 's holiday homes , hotels … and its headquarters . |
| 28 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 29 | If we fell off the rope we would have had to go back to the start . |
| 30 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |