Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 2 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 3 | Maybe I should have turned it over to the locals … ’ |
| 4 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 5 | You can get I mean , it 's not connected up but you can have er you can have it connected it up to the ra , to the radio and get concerts through the stere |
| 6 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 7 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 8 | Swindon Town have made it through to the play-off final at Wembley . |
| 9 | finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup … |
| 10 | Only two of their candidates have even made it through to the second round . |
| 11 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 12 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 13 | And when the man had arrived , Luke had offered him a glass of champagne and then shown him through to the kitchen and shut the door . |
| 14 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |
| 15 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 16 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 17 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 18 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 19 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 20 | ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins . |
| 21 | Erm I I I did this morning but I 've handed it back to the District Council access to their newt report , which was referred to a couple of days ago . |
| 22 | ‘ Your mam 's invited me back to the house . ’ |
| 23 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 24 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 25 | His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor . |
| 26 | For if nothing else , by the time I had flown another twelve hours north from Auckland , and my jet had settled me on to the runway at Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong , I was still on the periphery of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 27 | It would have suited you down to the ground . ’ |
| 28 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 29 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |
| 30 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |