Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 2 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 3 | Some European banks have opened branches and acquired local US banks to give them a stake in a country committed to free enterprise and profit , along with access to the domestic dollar market . |
| 4 | The number of injuries is actually going down in proportion to the increased number of skiers . |
| 5 | It was reported on March 14 that all military exercises were soon to be scaled down in response to the diminishing threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 6 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 7 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 9 | Also out and about this week were THE PRIMITIVES and CHAPTERHOUSE who were spotted at THE POETS gig tapping their beer bottles along in time to the swell up-and-coming sounds emanating stageside . |
| 10 | And the f the the younger apprentices used to plunk on a Monday afternoon and all go along to Street to the this and she says , You did n't need to buy sweeties it was the rails of the gallery were sticking with toffee . |
| 11 | Go down at night to the Corniche , the old Portuguese part of Muscat , and you are as safe as in your air-conditioned hotel . |
| 12 | This means that you thunder down the approach at Spitfire cruising-speed till , upon reaching a point one minute from the runway , you almost stop the aircraft in mid-air ( sending anyone inside towards the windshield ) , then bring it down at Bonanza-pace to a landing which , with practice , can be as short as 1,100 feet . |
| 13 | The law also abolished the principle of primogeniture ( the direct passing on of land to the first-born son ) , save for those cases where the eldest male was prepared to embrace Protestantism . |
| 14 | Here is a summary of the service we receive from your bank at present , based on an agreement reached with the manager shortly after I took over as clerk to the Parish Council : |
| 15 | I distance myself from the position and the policy of the President and advocate his immediate resignation [ and ] the handing over of power to a collective body , the Federation Council . " |
| 16 | Early on June 30 a small group of Army officers led by Lt. Mwamba Luchembe succeeded in broadcasting at regular intervals over 90 minutes a message on national radio saying that the Army had taken over in response to the food price rises . |
| 17 | The former Vice-President , A. K. M. Nurul Islam , protested at the summary manner of his dismissal on Aug. 13 ( see p. 36852 ) , while M. A. Matin resigned on the same day as Deputy Prime Minister and deputy parliamentary leader claiming that he had been passed over in promotion to the post of Prime Minister . |
| 18 | Consequently , there was a constant danger of those Moorish princes owing allegiance to El Cid calling upon him for aid , or simply reneging on their agreements and going over in force to the Almoravid leader . |
| 19 | ( And since Samling also has shipping interests , Barama will control the business from the actual felling right through to delivery to the customer . ) |
| 20 | About 1km ( half a mile ) further on , the road has a righthand turn off for entry to the motorway N2 which has emerged from the Seelisberg 9km ( 5½mile ) tunnel to run up the Reuss valley between railway and river for a considerable stretch . |
| 21 | Good tactics , whether planned or not — the more gentry were pinned down here , the fewer were left to muster the Volunteers or ride off with news to the Deputies at Blairgowrie . |
| 22 | He broke off in deference to the Mother Superior , whose faded grey eyes lit with amusement . |
| 23 | The poverty statistics are cited as further support for the view that the elderly are becoming better off in relation to the rest of society . |
| 24 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 25 | On Monday , 6 September 1773 , Boswell and Johnson left the home of Sir Alexander Macdonald and set off on horseback to a staging-post near their embarkation point for Raasay . |
| 26 | Finally , clutching Joie Gould with one hand and a bottle of Scotch in the other , he was sent off by train to a London clinic . |
| 27 | This level should , Leathart advised , be pushed on with speed to the Great Cross-course , and then on to the second fault , seen in the northern end of Fleming 's , which had cut off the vein , and there to institute a search . |
| 28 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 29 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 30 | A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment . |