Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 2 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 3 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |
| 4 | More than anything else could have been , it was searingly expressive of the contempt in which he held her , because he had ignored her face where her personality and individuality were written , his attention given wholly to a part of her body — and a body was just a body as far as she was concerned , with nothing to do with one 's emotional identity . |
| 5 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 6 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 7 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 8 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 9 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 10 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 11 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 13 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 14 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 15 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 16 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 17 | We dropped anchor offshore , and passengers and baggage were off-loaded on to a barge . |
| 18 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 19 | Ah was affronted fur her , imagine gettin' stuck ‘ n ’ huvin' to get rolled on to a stretcher , the perr o' them , and kerted oot covered up wi' his poplin shortie . |
| 20 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 21 | The power lift appears to have worked with a cable attached to the rear of the plough , which was raised as the other end of the cable was wound on to a shaft . |
| 22 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 23 | If you touched a picture , there was a brief humming noise and then the food dropped on to a tray in a slot . |
| 24 | Staff hung out of the chemists Strickland and Holt , cheering and waving ; men scrambled on to a ledge above the Peter Dominic off-licence ; boys climbed on to the top of bus shelters . |
| 25 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 26 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 27 | The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city . |
| 28 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 29 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 30 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |