Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 2 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 3 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 4 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 5 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 6 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 7 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 8 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 9 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 10 | At the end of it , just before Myeloski had given in to the rough flight conditions , Duncan had come to realize how sharp the policeman was , how through his individual approach he had put together clues that most others would have missed . |
| 11 | Needless to say Jeffery , and many others , have had little difficulty in showing how all such attempts have inevitably boiled down to the arbitrary moral predilections of the criminologists concerned . |
| 12 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 13 | They have caught on to the right idea , by saying , |
| 14 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 15 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 16 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 17 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 18 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 19 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 20 | The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively . |
| 21 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 22 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |
| 23 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
| 24 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 25 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 26 | MRS LEONA ‘ Queen Meanie ’ Helmsley , the self-styled Hotel Queen who failed to pay her million-dollar tax bill , yesterday booked in to the meagre , but free-of-charge , accommodation of an American jail cell . |
| 27 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 28 | CROWDS of starving Muslims , mostly women and children , cheered and wept yesterday as a long-delayed United Nations aid convoy loaded with food and medicine finally won through to the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica . |
| 29 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |
| 30 | Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project . |