Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waterhouse , probably improperly , passed this information on to the Palace . |
| 2 | ‘ Damn , ’ said Charlie under his breath , as the moon made another entrance on to the centre of the stage and left them lying motionless only a street 's length away from safety . |
| 3 | As the big jetliner continued its turn back to the airport , Duncan applied some power back to the left engine . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , there is a story in Malta , ’ he said drily , ‘ that when St Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on our shores , back in 60 AD , and he performed a miracle by removing the poison from a snakebite , he merely transferred that poison on to the tongues of Maltese women . ’ |
| 5 | and then you drove another tunnel out to the right |
| 6 | farther east on the southern frontier , the wars against the Buryats caused great turmoil up to the end of the seventeenth century , when the back-and-forth migrations of Buryat and Mongol clans was brought to an end by the closing of the frontier between the Russian Empire and Chinese ‘ Outer Mongolia ’ . |
| 7 | She let him pour it for her while she threw another log on to the fire , smashing a cathedral of embers . |
| 8 | In Paris , the government 's response was an admission of impotence : it turned civilian authority over to the Commander-in-Chief , General Raoul Salan . |
| 9 | He waited until they were lost to sight beyond a fold of ground and a belt of trees , and then made good speed down to the little river , splashed through it where the banks were level and firm , and climbed the slope on the other side . |
| 10 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 11 | We sat down and Harvey speared fried chicken on to the three plates . |
| 12 | He canted his body and raised one knee on to the floor of the gazebo . |
| 13 | Léonie sifted silky flour on to the wide brass pan of the scales . |
| 14 | Twenty one Welsh MPs tabled a Commons motion claiming the appointment of Carolyn Jones ‘ brought further disgrace on to the use and abuse of patronage powers by the Secretary of State ’ . |
| 15 | We were still laughing when we took more food out to the others . |
| 16 | The Socialist government revised this forecast down to an increase of only 23% ( over the 1981 level ) — i.e. around 90 MTOE in 1990 with nuclear capacity restricted to 7,500 MW and oil use reduced by increased coal and gas consumption . |
| 17 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 18 | Conversely , Habitat flew in the face of expert opinion when it introduced pack-flat furniture on to the American market . |