Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how many people you see , I think it 's all down to yourself in the end . |
| 2 | On their way across the churchyard Mrs Hollidaye pointed down to something on the ground . |
| 3 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 4 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 5 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 6 | There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above . |
| 7 | We have a traditional culture , which comes down to us from the time of the Renaissance , and our literature , which is rich , draws its life blood therefrom . |
| 8 | The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly . |
| 9 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 10 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 11 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 12 | 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on . |
| 13 | He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me . |
| 14 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 15 | The message seeped through to her via the depth of his kisses , the gentle strength in the fingers that ruffled her hair before kneading their way down her spine — and his arousal , which betrayed his hunger to make love . |
| 16 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 17 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 18 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |
| 19 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 21 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 22 | But try and look at the fundamental basis of what they 're trying to put over to you on the video , okay ? |
| 23 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 24 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 25 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 26 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 27 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 28 | Remembered the horrible , fair , insinuating Frome sidling up to her at the counter and suddenly , unexpectedly , braying out for the whole shop to hear in exaggerated cockney : ‘ Better not fatten him up too much , love , or he 'll be too heavy to baby-snatch . ’ |
| 29 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 30 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |