Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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1 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
2 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
3 | ‘ The IAAF must urgently review the situation , for when you make your rules you have to carry them out to the letter of the law . |
4 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
5 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
6 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
7 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
8 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
9 | Whoever killed Kemp had time : time to cart him off to the river , ant dump him there — gently , Lewis — without even a splash to startle the cygnets … ’ |
10 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
11 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
12 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
13 | Some of this can be achieved through training , with time to relate it back to the working environment . ’ |
14 | In this case , the Bank buys bills but agrees to sell them back to the market at an agreed price some time in the future . |
15 | Mrs Rumney was shout to lead me through to the kitchen when the door burst open and Cedric bounded delightedly into the midst of the company . |
16 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
17 | Lucy was left to kick around by the unmanned Reservations desk for a couple of minutes , and then a waiter appeared to lead her over to the table . |
18 | Wordlessly , she allowed him to lead her on to the roadway and down the hill towards home . |
19 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
20 | Like the linker , it sits on the main bed and has a cog wheel and spring at the rear to lock it on to the needlebed . |
21 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
22 | Anyone who buys a piece of plant and machinery and tries to sell it back to the manufacturer at 75 per cent . |
23 | A repurchase agreement provides a means for the short to lend money to the futures market : the short agrees to buy a bond with a provision to sell it back to the market at a predetermined price and to receive a rate of interest , the repo rate . |
24 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
25 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
26 | I want you to get someone to drive you up to the hospital to see her . |
27 | Since they had become used to hospitals it was believed both unfair to them and impracticable in resettlement terms to ship them out to the community . |
28 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
29 | I 've been sent — by those even higher up than I am — to fetch you back to the office . ’ |
30 | Someone had laid out knee-high duckboards to cross the snow , and Lucenzo shot out an imperious hand to help her on to the low platform . |