Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , distant beyond the broad bowl full of skeleton walls , she saw the headlights of a car pass on the road to Silcaster , sweeping eerily across the filigree of stonework and grass , and vanishing again at the turn of the highway . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 4 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 5 | ‘ Then perhaps you should pass on the lesson to Señor Mitchell , ’ he grated . |
| 6 | She shinned down the rope to Jekub 's deck . |
| 7 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 8 | Right now the others are chatting with Guy Holmes and Tamzin , discussing their love lives — in Fred and Rob 's cases matters of quite rampaging heterosexual complexity — while Richard talks down the phone to South Africa , saying ‘ success has a price … ’ |
| 9 | It bore the address of the garage also , and he relayed it down the phone to Sam . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's four afternoons a week , ’ Kitty Bouverie said down the telephone to Anna . |
| 11 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
| 12 | I put my gown on , taking as long as I could , and walked slowly down the passage to Nonni 's room . |
| 13 | Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field . |
| 14 | The following graph gives a general idea of how quickly the real value of those customers ' accounts erode if they are not collected and slip down the scale to customer 5 . |
| 15 | Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony , including Wally Fuentes Morrison , and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Bobby Ferguson yesterday threw down the gauntlet to Sunderland 's Welsh international , Colin Pascoe . |
| 17 | SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury threw down the gauntlet to M & S , Tesco and Safeway yesterday with another set of sparkling results . |
| 18 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 19 | So the insistence of some employees on cash payment tends to slow down the trend to cheque or transfer payment , and therefore to that wider use of bank accounts which we see as bringing considerable advantages to consumers in money management and cheaper credit availability . |
| 20 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 21 | However , while Danzig enjoyed these widespread trade contacts and reaped the benefit of the still massive river trade in Polish timber ( 16,949 log floats of 9 logs per float were rafted down the Warthe to Stettin or Berlin in 1871 alone ) Western Europe had already moved on to develop its rail networks . |
| 22 | The only saving grace was that the number Quinn had dictated down the line to Zack was still on the Kensington exchange . |
| 23 | When this is over , it will go down the line to Menai . |
| 24 | But when stuff came down the dock to people off , on to a boat , would that be stored in a warehouse first and then go on to the boat or would it be |
| 25 | This is just one version out of the score of recipes for this venerable dish which is not a grill at all and which you will scarcely find nowadays simmering away in the galleys of the great petrol barges which whirl down the Rhone to Marseille . |
| 26 | Then , as the planes roar down the flightpath to Heathrow , the one designed to prevent the ultimate nightmare of exposure in a Sunday tabloid . |
| 27 | After 20 minutes , turn down the heat to Gas 4/350F/180C and cook for another 1¼–1½ hours . |
| 28 | After 20 minutes , turn down the heat to Gas 4/350F/180C and cook for another 1¼–1½ hours . |
| 29 | I decided to try the Power Tool in two ways : the first using a stack , with the amp set to full shred ; the second with a Vox AC30 on full tilt , but with the Power Tool bringing down the volume to bedroom level . |
| 30 | She looked down the table to Captain Meredith facing her . |