Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] [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 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 7 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 8 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 11 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 12 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 13 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 14 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 15 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 16 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 17 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 18 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 19 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 20 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 23 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 26 | They have caught on to the right idea , by saying , |
| 27 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |