Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few heart-stopping moments the old engine coughed into life , and he managed to accelerate the loaded vehicle through the flames out to safety . |
| 2 | Mr Major won a decisive Commons majority for the ratification Bill , despite another Tory rebellion in the year-long battle with his party 's Euro-sceptics to steer the measure through to law . |
| 3 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 4 | The historic decision came after Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell referred the case back to Court of Appeal on the grounds that the sentence was ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 5 | An experienced headhunter could narrow the field down to short-list stage much more quickly and cost-effectively , Tagg argued . |
| 6 | Generally the results from these studies can be interpreted in terms of Easterbrook 's hypothesis , however , before applying the hypothesis indiscriminately to memory results it is necessary to remember the limitations of the hypothesis with regards to task performance generally . |
| 7 | Officers were yesterday interviewing the woman , and Inspector Barry Jakeman appealed to anyone who was at Farley Mount in the hour up to midnight to contact police . |
| 8 | The Council has a policy now of bringing all its properties up to date , but priority because they 're , bringing the houses up to date will take some eight years , priority is given to elderly citizens and people with medical needs . |
| 9 | The reason for caution is the ‘ Kinnock kebab ’ : for earners on twice average income the prospective marginal tax rates will be unprecedented and the decision not to phase in the changes slowly will mean a quick fall in discretionary spending . |
| 10 | New recruits to keep the militia up to establishment , and to allow longer-serving members to go home , were selected by ballot . |
| 11 | Yeah are you keeping the index up to date now ? |
| 12 | Literaturnaya Gazeta yesterday brought the story up to date with an emotionally devastating report . |
| 13 | The original edition in 1960 , ended the story in 1880 ; the new edition , revised and rewritten by Dr Leslie Hunt , brings the story up to date in all senses , relying on original historical research by Hunt himself and by many contributors to Johnson Matthey 's journal Platinum Metals Review ( founded 1957 ) , and on Hunt 's knowledge of modern industry It is lavishly illustrated , partly in colour . |
| 14 | But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity . |
| 15 | Picasso and Braque turned to the objects closest to hand for their subject-matter , objects forming part of their daily lives and relating to their most immediate and obvious physical necessities and pleasures . |
| 16 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
| 17 | The group nurses the animals back to health at Rossett , near Chester , before finding a good home for them . |
| 18 | The group nurses the animals back to health at Rossett , near Wrexham , before finding a good home for them . |
| 19 | Passing through humid cornfields back to town brings the mind around to separation . |
| 20 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 21 | The dispute took place after the English victory at Agincourt and at a time of growing alliance between Henry V and the Emperor Sigismund against the French , and there is little doubt that the principal French spokesman on the subject , Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , was largely concerned with cutting the enemy down to size . |
| 22 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 23 | The switch back to Creole for the single word " though " is particularly striking . |
| 24 | You know , you get the house straight and send the kids off to school . |
| 25 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
| 26 | Nae way are we doing it now when we we 've got the scaffolding up to gan up . |
| 27 | Indeed , the Phillips curve did seem to conform with much of what Keynes had written on inflation in the years after the General Theory , the most illuminating example of which is the pamphlet How to Pay for the War ( 1940 ) . |
| 28 | The last of these three exercises begins by raising the legs up to waist height , keeping the back straight and the eyes looking to the front . |
| 29 | However , the Baltimore was a good aircraft and it needed a direct hit to knock one down and so , despite our damage , I was able to get the aircraft back to base . ’ |
| 30 | Sterling is looking to part with one or more of the aircraft in an attempt to recover some of the costs incurred in bringing the aircraft back to civilisation . |