Example sentences of "to the nearest " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 2 | This consists of a fitted and lined coffin , conveyance for the dead person , or delivery of a coffin ( at least ten running miles allowed ) , laying out of the person , which normally includes embalming , use of the chapel of rest , provision of a hearse , and one following car to the nearest local cemetery or crematorium , and necessary conductors and bearers . |
| 3 | If you are fitting several lights ( downlighters or eyeball spots , say ) , run this cable to the nearest fitting , and then run cable from this to the next nearest , and so on to the last . |
| 4 | You must round the 80% calculation to the nearest penny . |
| 5 | Round each calculation to the nearest 1p ( round down any amounts of ½p , i.e. |
| 6 | We went to the nearest pub in our sodden clothes and reflected on our great holiday . |
| 7 | Price : A typical selling price including VAT to the nearest pound . |
| 8 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 9 | It can accurately tell him where he is to the nearest ten metres or so . |
| 10 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 11 | ‘ Will you go down to the town , to the nearest phone box and get on to the station ? |
| 12 | The shop stewards also decided that all accident and emergency cases would be taken to the nearest accident and emergency department . |
| 13 | Costings of domestic expenditures in industrial countries on reducing emissions tend to brush away the minor irrelevancies of the millions and concentrate on refining estimates to the nearest billion . |
| 14 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 15 | I hauled my luggage to the nearest small hotel and took a cheap room . |
| 16 | There were very old dogs , taken gently to the nearest suitable spot then straight home ; dogs who bounded ahead , to wait for a moment , look round , eyes shining , mouth dripping , before dashing off once more ; dogs on the lead , who would drag their owner slowly from one thoughtfully sniffed-over site to the next ; and there were some , like Wilson , who trotted to heel — alert , brisk , responsible — although Wilson was not a dog , only so much like an Aberdeen terrier in bearing and gait that his picture sometimes became confused in my mind . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll take this lot to the nearest litter bin . ’ |
| 18 | Take it to the nearest station and get the Hell out of here before I change my mind about carting you . |
| 19 | ‘ Morning , ’ he said to the nearest policeman , whose head was buried in the engine . |
| 20 | With her finger and thumb she plucked a quarter of the sandwich from his plate and threw it to the nearest dog . |
| 21 | Across the nation aristocratic backwoodsmen , a tribe previously thought to be on the verge of extinction , tottered off to the nearest railway station to obey the summons . |
| 22 | If I could n't find a telephone in Sam 's big workshop I could drive Harry 's car to the nearest house … |
| 23 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 24 | It is 25 miles to the nearest district general hospital from some parts of the county and ambulances can be delayed on narrow roads , crowded with holiday traffic . |
| 25 | But then you realise it 's 30 or 40 miles to the nearest general hospital and that can be difficult particularly as you get older , ’ says Dr Tony Hill , consultant in public health medicine . |
| 26 | I had both radiators removed and transferred to the lorry and told the driver to go to the nearest large town and to contact the best plumber to help me repair the radiators . |
| 27 | The needs for cheap and convenient transport to the nearest town for the ‘ diversified employment family ’ , for example , must be taken into account . |
| 28 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
| 29 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 30 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |