Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Wheeler , however , did not always pass on the relevant information to his assistant .
2 Employers could not pass on the extra costs to the consumers either at home or abroad because of international competition — British goods would have been even more expensive than foreign goods .
3 Well he had to switch on the interior light to be able to fill out the form .
4 Well wha what he said was he went up there there 's erm could they put on the front wheels to the back and the back wheels to the front did n't say anything the bloke said , well we ca n't charge you .
5 Clearly the point had arrived in September 1947 where fundamental decisions had to be taken on the American commitment to Korea .
6 He was taken on the indispensable visit to Holford Glen , and it was there , seated by the side of the brook , that the brief exchange took place which Coleridge was still repeating in his old age : ‘ Citizen John , ’ Coleridge remarked , ‘ this is a fine place to talk treason in ! ’
7 BRITAIN 's first solar-powered lavatories have switched on the National Trust to cutting its £2.5 million power bill by using more ‘ green energy ’ .
8 As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out .
9 He is the natural author to take on the popular character to so successfully revived in ‘ Batman 2 ’ .
10 discount because they take in students , but will they pass on the full tax to the students ?
11 Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament .
12 LENNOX LEWIS last night threw down the ultimate gambit to world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe saying : ‘ If fighting me is so personal , let's do it and send all the money to Africa . ’
13 And then Josie whispered , ‘ Follow me , ’ and started down the carpeted stairway to the lower level .
14 I walked the 30 paces down the narrow alley to the very spot where the paper girl first heard the running steps of her assailant before she was knocked senseless .
15 I think I have narrowed down the possible causes to be either hogweed or nettles and I am in the process of removing these .
16 This helps to tone down the bodily reactions to mental stress , and can therefore moderate a symptom such as diarrhoea , even though the primary cause of that diarrhoea is a reaction to food .
17 I rushed down the dark passage to the lavatory with both hands at my face .
18 He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived .
19 He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio .
20 The commandos blew in its steel door , and , leaving Chamberlain , who could hardly help himself along , to guard it , they ran down the long stairway to the pumps 40 feet below .
21 He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking .
22 She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind .
23 Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff .
24 As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name .
25 Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg .
26 Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem .
27 Never again would it scorch down the winding lanes to the Saracen 's Head in Lincoln , the destination for most of the RAF Officers in the neighbourhood on their nights off , or even just down to the local in the village .
28 Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance .
29 Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been .
30 Police have tracked down the main suppliers to the North West of England .
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