Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this image were displayed using the methods described earlier it would lack very dark values ( 0–24 ) as well as medium to bright values ( 91–255 ) and would cover only the dark to medium grey range . |
| 2 | Since , in 1850 , the one bastion of that order which had escaped major trouble in 1848 was the Russian Empire , it was likely that at some point France would throw down the gauntlet to the tsar . |
| 3 | Nonetheless Nykrog 's work does demonstrate substantially the extent to which these fabliaux support and respect relative status in the existing late-feudal social scale . |
| 4 | In a year the shop would be no more , lorries would carry away the rubble to which it had been reduced , leaving a gap to be filled by yet another chain store . |
| 5 | The crystal chandelier was for effect only — lighting that would show off the clothes to their best advantage was brilliant yet discreet , and along one wall were racks holding some of the ready-to-wear garments . |
| 6 | Using the gold frame and choosing either a rectangular or oval shape , you could then use a mid-brown mount with a gold line drawn around the aperture , and choose a plain cream or light beige silk or satin backing with a combination of flowers in various autumnal shades with some darker brown or green leaves , to help show off the flowers to their best advantage . |
| 7 | I 'll fetch up the bath to you straight , and have Adam bring cans of water up here . ’ |
| 8 | Contract Compliance Local authorities when inviting tenders must specify clearly the work to be done and the conditions under which it should be completed . |
| 9 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 10 | When the photographer has finished we 'll bring out the items to you . |
| 11 | Having perfected each manoeuvre in the flat water , I could then sail down the estuary to the open sea and practise what I had learned on the waves . |
| 12 | They say we need more rain because most of the downpour will run down the rivers to the sea . |
| 13 | He can work up the ocean to scuds of foam when he 's cross . |
| 14 | With November came the herring season and the boats would sail up the coast to Torbay , then back around Bigbury Bay and Plymouth , although a few boats continued to fish for pilchards from Looe throughout the Winter . |
| 15 | Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size . |
| 16 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 17 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 18 | Top-up arrangements are not permitted as part of a tender offer ( SAR 4.1(c) ) so the buyer could not make up the difference to shareholders who have already sold if a full bid on improved terms is made subsequently . |
| 19 | ‘ … and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ |
| 20 | The brother shall deliver up the brother to death … |
| 21 | He went to his stall with the words echoing and reechoing in his inward ear : ‘ and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death ’ . |
| 22 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 23 | Then Christ will deliver up the kingdom to the Father , and God will be all in all . |
| 24 | Adding in the cost of the bus fare would jack up the APR to 33.7 per cent — more expensive than the local shop . |
| 25 | The enabling Act which grants the power to make secondary legislation will set out the procedures to be followed when the secondary legislation is created . |
| 26 | This itself would rule out the move to a Single Currency . |
| 27 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 28 | Higher rate taxpayers must top up the tax to 40 per cent . |
| 29 | I 'll read out the groups to you . |
| 30 | The fact that we can judge precisely the response to a particular ad is a slightly dangerous idea . ’ |