Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officially , the bike route ends here ; more experienced cyclists may care to carry on the ascent to the Krimml waterfalls . |
| 2 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 3 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 4 | One day the hospital rang Mrs Britton to say he had died , and to pass on the news to me . |
| 5 | Later , when we 're nearer completion , you might like to offer a free trip to the agents he recommends — get them to pass on the news to their customers . |
| 6 | Churchill 's ‘ overlords ’ certainly enabled him to slim down the Cabinet to sixteen members . |
| 7 | From there we had to shuffle down the underground to Davenports Magic Shop , where Paul had been lured in order to buy an ancient Chinese trick , hence the coolie gear . |
| 8 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 9 | It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it . |
| 10 | So Alexander left the surgery determined that he , himself , was going to find out the solution to his curious problem . |
| 11 | She wanted to find out the extent to which children are aware of differences between spoken and written language , of features that might pass muster in speech but not in the written word . |
| 12 | In each class at least four methods were used by different pupils to work out the answer to this item . |
| 13 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 14 | In the allegory , it is not easy to work out the extent to which the regress is a return to Puritanian values . |
| 15 | Enhancement in this context means the carrying out of works which are intended to lengthen substantially the useful life of the asset , to increase substantially its open market value , or to increase substantially the extent to which the asset will serve the purposes of the local authority concerned . |
| 16 | Occasionally you had to spell out the name to tourists to avoid any needless confusion . |
| 17 | Overloading of the sieves restricts the opportunity for particles to progress down the nest to an appropriate mesh . |
| 18 | The work is being carried out on behalf of English heritage , which is planning to open up the Friary to the public once renovation work has been completed . |
| 19 | Our conference , which Delamothe said was attended by ‘ political activists and pensioners , ’ was intended to open up the debate to the public and to inform people using the service . |
| 20 | Government plans ( i ) to privatize state companies ( beginning with the projected sale of the state airline , Viasa , and the state telephone company , CANTV ) ; ( ii ) to cut subsides to the state sector ; and ( iii ) to open up the economy to foreign investment by a sharp reduction in tariffs , were also deeply unpopular and strongly opposed by trade unions . |
| 21 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |
| 22 | He saw the Shah 's reform movement as designed to sell out the country to foreign powers , especially Israel and the Untied States , and he exhorted the mullahs to resist . |
| 23 | When executive search consultants leave or retire , they are forced to sell back the equity to other partners who , on election to the partnership , are encouraged to purchase stock at an agreed rate . |
| 24 | Subsequently applied to geography as a whole , Bennett and Chorley ( 1978 ) produced a text which attempted to explore firstly the extent to which systems theory provided an interdisciplinary focus for environmental matters and to what extent systems technology provides an adequate vehicle ; and secondly to ascertain the manner in which systems approaches aid in the development of an integrated theory relating social and economic theory to physical and biological theory . |
| 25 | Certainly , in essence this is a political decision , but it would be naive to play down the extent to which this and other aspects of the policy agenda is shaped by officials . |
| 26 | By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers . |
| 27 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 28 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 29 | The strongest support of all for the Bill came from my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , who had a range of interesting ways in which to stoke up the legislation to higher and higher levels of severity . |
| 30 | At last , just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry 's burrow , he saw him come out of his hole , followed by no less than three rabbits . |