Example sentences of "and [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ . |
| 2 | He gets no visitors , and so the letters to Maureen are a lifeline : |
| 3 | The only head of public interest upon which the inspectors rely is the prevention of crime , and so the question to be answered is whether on the material before it the court should have been satisfied that disclosure of Mr. Warner 's sources is ‘ necessary … for the prevention of … crime ’ within the meaning of section 10 . |
| 4 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 5 | The thrill , and perhaps the claim to posterity , is in being able to bestow a name on a rose that is different to anything seen before . |
| 6 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 7 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 8 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 9 | For dry harvesting , machines with rotating teeth are pushed up and down the bogs to gently comb the berries from the vines . |
| 10 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |
| 11 | My other point relates to developments in Europe , and especially the run-up to the Maastricht intergovernmental conference . |
| 12 | It is possible to identify many individual wage earners in the court records , and the next stage of the project involves finding out more from other sources about these individuals , so as to understand more fully their social and economic position , and especially the extent to which they were solely reliant on their income from wage earning . |
| 13 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 14 | All for now — it is chucking down hail , so I am afraid it is the post lift near here tomorrow Monday and not the trek to the main sorting office . |
| 15 | However , it will be noted that the above depends upon the propensity to save and not the propensity to unproductive consumption . |
| 16 | But a view of Co-operation which admitted only those who are thus motivated would make it an exceptional and exclusive creed to which could subscribe only those for whom Co-operation was itself the end and not the means to a better life , to one which enhanced what Dahrendorf calls a man 's life chances . |
| 17 | The prospective reduction in global warming — and thus the benefit to Britain 's climate — would be correspondingly small . |
| 18 | It takes in the Col Des Saisies ( 1633 metres ) , the Cormet de Roselend ( 1968 metres ) , the Col de l'Iseran ( 2770 metres and the highest point of the Tour ) , the Col du Mont Cenis ( 2083 metres ) and finally the climb to the ski station of Sestriere in Italy , 2033 metres above sea level . |
| 19 | The action , the person responsible and possibly the resources to be used , must be stated clearly and the chairman 's signature appended with the date . |
| 20 | In an age when we feel more and more the need to be in harmony with our environment , it makes sense to surround yourself with the infinite variety and beauty of today 's clay tiles , so sophisticated in their simplicity . |
| 21 | The audience flowed in behind as Argyll and his tall , rawboned wife dragged Elizabeth , screaming , swearing , fighting every step , out of the hall and up the stair to the empty guest room next to his own . |
| 22 | There was no sign of the dog as they made haste through the alders and up the field to the first hedgerow . |
| 23 | They went through Mill Hill Circus just a hundred yards behind the bleeper and up the slope to Five Ways Corner . |
| 24 | The Dawsons themselves had enthusiastically helped to heave it over a rut and up the slope to the garage . |
| 25 | They turned back into the swirling smoke , and up the ladder to the superstructure , regaining the door to the wireless hut . |
| 26 | Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas causing the fire to spread along the passageway and up the stairwell to the second floor . |
| 27 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 28 | But cost to us if you paid you know pay for girls and also the procedure to er use the service is is much better now . |
| 29 | For some authors perspective provides both the laws of perception and also the key to the true and rational representation of objects . |
| 30 | The central point is that the range of different patois spoken reflects both the complexity of the linguistic situation in the Caribbean and also the modifications to these being made by children growing up within the overseas speech communities in London . |