Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of the exchange , from a meeting place for buyers and sellers , to futures trading in a pit or ring leads logically to the assumption that every member of the floor should be aware of the prevailing price of business being done and have an equal opportunity to participate in it . |
| 2 | ‘ Social Darwinism ’ and racist anthropology or biology belong not to the science of the nineteenth century but to its politics . |
| 3 | But to see his face light up with pleasure as his eye lighted on a child 's painting or model spoke more to the teacher ( and the child ) about the sincerity of his concerns than a hundred words would . |
| 4 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 5 | Permit me to take up our plight — try to imagine for a moment the straight and level run in to the target , " bombs gone " followed by the desperate seconds ( best described by one of my Canadian pilots as " when I bite buttons off my parachute cushion " ) before the automatic photoflash and the aiming point picture taken by the night camera . |
| 6 | If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays . |
| 7 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 8 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
| 9 | While poor segmenting and labelling contributed greatly to the problem , there is psycholinguistic evidence that people can and do use later information to recover from errors and ambiguities in the input . |
| 10 | Kate had somehow knocked over her cup , and tea spilled on to the tray , splashing her skirt . |
| 11 | The country 's authoritarianism and uniformity owe much to the state 's overweening power . |
| 12 | The driver and fireman ran up to the inert body ; too late , the man was dead . |
| 13 | In this process , art can then be seen to belong to an essentially subjective stage of immediate , concrete picturing ; religion appears at that of objectifying symbols ; and philosophy breaks through to the conceptualisation in which full and genuine understanding is attained . |
| 14 | Timber was carted up , a tough job for any horse , and ore brought down to the Paddy End Mill in the same manner . |
| 15 | An imposing wooden staircase and gallery leads up to the suites which have a bedroom and a sitting area or sitting room , a bathroom , TV and telephone . |
| 16 | Afterwards the rank and file amble down to the village pub at the end of the drive . |
| 17 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 18 | ‘ Anglers broke the ice to fish and diesel bubbled up to the surface . |
| 19 | to wind and rain whip in to the lonely , misplaced town . |
| 20 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | Abruptly , the all-pervading background noise in the TARDIS altered , and when Ace and Petion dashed back to the console room , they found the time rotor grinding to a halt . |
| 22 | Even in cases where the husband and wife contribute equally to the family budget , there is no guarantee that both will contribute equally to the day-to-day running of the home and caring for the children . |
| 23 | It drifts back up to join the clouds and sweetness comes back to the day . |
| 24 | Exclusively available from L'Oréal salons , we 've 1000 sets of shampoo and conditioner to give away to the first 1000 names drawn from the postbag on October 31 ( 100 for subscribers only ) . |
| 25 | After dinner , her uncle and Finn went again to the workroom and her aunt put on her grey dress and silver collar and did up her coiffure . |
| 26 | This profound change in the structure of the economy and society led also to the growth of a new class of people . |
| 27 | Colour the remaining royal icing green and pipe leaves on to the briar . |
| 28 | The Tidy Britain Group was busy most of the weekend recycling paper and glass brought along to the site by visitors . |
| 29 | I believe it is my obligation and duty to contribute fully to the work of justice . ’ |
| 30 | Jeeps , ammunition and food fell silently to the ground . |