Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 34 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 35 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 36 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 37 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 38 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 43 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 44 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 45 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 46 | ‘ As the industry matures , I believe airlines will be stripped down to the core business of flying people and cargo from place to place . |
| 47 | Blood had initially drained down to the back of the neck , thighs and mid-back . ’ |
| 48 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 51 | Celia kept slipping and Liza kept telling herself she was ridiculous to have given in to the child . |
| 52 | You want er you want a letter carried by hand and given in to the hand of Douglas MacArthur ? |
| 53 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 54 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 55 | ‘ Even though PDAG is not to be abolished until next April , it seems members have already given in to the Tories . |
| 56 | Still , Huy had answered Surere 's summons , had even given in to the messenger 's insistence that they travel in the closed rickshaw , so that he would not be able to tell where they were going . |
| 57 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 58 | I too desired to be at home , and was glad when we were able to close our own dear front door behind us , and be gathered in to the silence of our little parlour . |
| 59 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
| 60 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |