Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would run there , tiptoe across the green tiles and after measurement sprint back to the changing room to put on my gym shoes . |
| 2 | The rate for waggoning increased and in a few years up to about 11/ per 100 kibbles was paid for ore brought out to the Bonsor Mill . |
| 3 | For example ideas about more homely living environments can be traced to the early part of this century ( Roosens , 1979 ) , a concern with nature and form of assessment harks back to the Charity Organisation Society ( Sainsbury , 1989 ) , co-ordination of care was stressed in the Seebohm report and has featured in most subsequent discussions ( Cmnd. 3703 ; DHSS , 1982 ) and the need for planned hospital discharge has featured in critiques of the mental health services ( Cmnd. 6244 ; Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 5 | The Old World was saved and the Realm of Chaos shrank away to the north . |
| 6 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 7 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 8 | Cash floats , which are the set sums of money handed out to the restaurants and bars in order to provide them with change to start the day 's business , are checked , ready for collection by the departmental heads . |
| 9 | Jess kicked out , catching the handle of his tankard so that a puddle of porter slopped on to the counter . |
| 10 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 11 | Won agreements to end the dumping of chemical sludges in to the North Sea . |
| 12 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 13 | ‘ The criticism of religion leads naturally to the criticism of social relations , ’ observed Ellen . |
| 14 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 15 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 16 | Drops of blood fell on to the chicken . |
| 17 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 18 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 19 | Well , I will have you know that the office of coroner dates back to the twelfth century , before civil servants were thought of ! |
| 20 | One type of query refers solely to the absolute or relative locational properties of the spatial entities . |
| 21 | In the evening the focus of attention shifted downtown to the Assembly Rooms in George Street where a grand reception for all Napier 's staff was held . |
| 22 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 23 | Conscience is a function of the ego ideal , and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal . |
| 24 | And er sometimes it takes a bit of courage to walk over to the tap when everybody 's saying there 'll be no water , and for you to turn that tap on . |
| 25 | You 'll need plenty of courage to face up to the fact that trouble is about to strike and then to deter whoever is behind it . |
| 26 | Women whose respect for and understanding of difference extended only to the marginal realm of their lesbian sexual partner . |
| 27 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 28 | This will mean £20bn-worth of sterling coming on to the market to buy foreign currency . |
| 29 | Olson 's claims for the consequences of literacy refer only to the essay-text form of writing , as though this was what is generally meant by ‘ literacy ’ . |
| 30 | The change of name applies only to the company and its subsidiary and is not intended to affect the rights to any trade name or mark or the reference to ‘ ABC ’ on the product . |