Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |
| 2 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 3 | People who dangle wires or ropes on to power lines to see what happens are playing with fire . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Follow right edge of sixth field on defined track to gate in far righthand corner ; turn left in seventh field downhill to farm in bottom corner . |
| 6 | When we were all off-duty of an evening , Rosemary and I would get ourselves done up in our civvies ( strictly forbidden ) , and with our greatcoats and hats on to fool the eagle eye of the duty NCO in the Waaf Picquet Post , totter down the drive to await the arrival of the boys in the car . |
| 7 | Because of the limited visibility at the top of the hill a new access directly from Drum Brae Park on to Drum Brae could not be recommended . |
| 8 | We were not to see the famous ‘ stoop ’ dive on to prey after all . |
| 9 | It relies on the preferential absorption on to clay minerals of an ultra-violet sensitive dye . |
| 10 | I agreed , and next day they sent a photographer along to West London Stadium and I was pictured wearing my ‘ Pure Talent ’ tee-shirt with ‘ No Additives ’ inscribed on the back . |
| 11 | An experienced headhunter could narrow the field down to short-list stage much more quickly and cost-effectively , Tagg argued . |
| 12 | And the perfect pastime guaranteed to cut Ben down to size . |
| 13 | To run cable down to light switches or to wall lights , it will usually be necessary to ‘ chase ’ slots in solid walls , though if you are rewiring a house which was originally wired in metal conduit , you may be able to use the existing conduit buried in the plaster leading to light switches to feed the cable down . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So the Wife of Bath and the Prioress together challenge the social norms of women 's roles ; the shifting surfaces of the Pardoner 's blatant hypocrisy tease the reader into an uncomfortable awareness of the unfathomable nature of human motivation for the onlooker ; the Nun 's priest 's juxtaposition of intellectual solemnity with quick-witted pragmatism and his stress on the saving grace of social charity cuts self-importance down to size . |
| 16 | McBride can put his luck down to criticism from scribes down south earlier in the season , rather than bad selection policy . |
| 17 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 18 | And of Katherine Hepburn : ‘ She ran the gamut of expressions from A to B. ’ One-liners that catch the eye include : The best play I ever slept through ; I 've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella ; I saw the play at a disadvantage — the curtain was up ; The scenery was beautiful but the actors got in front of it ; When Mr Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell , he underestimates the distance . ’ |
| 19 | It explicitly reversed the accepted Catholic teaching which related freedom only to truth and not to persons , claiming that error had no rights . |
| 20 | Coloured shells with white lips ( fig.11 ) and coloured enclaves are often found in habitats where mussels predominate , but coloured dog-whelks can be found in the total absence of the mussels-for instance , around Minehead in West Somerset ( plate 2 ) Moore 's transfers the other way round , white shells on to mussel shores , did not induce any colour change . |
| 21 | At the sideboard he crashed two covers on to silver dishes . |
| 22 | Tap Right with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll right 1/3 Of a window at a time |
| 23 | Tap Left with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll left 1/3 Of a window at a time |
| 24 | The final whistle came with Rayners Lane holding on to win by three goals to nil . |
| 25 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 26 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 27 | To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque . |
| 28 | There are plans to put this programme on to videotape , so it can be shown to customers locally without the need for lengthy and expensive trips to the UK . |
| 29 | There 's some artists out there who do it because they have to get it off their chest and get their songs on to tape . |
| 30 | If your dry garden borders on to paving , many of these plants will spill over and even colonise the cracks , softening up hard lines and giving a mellow feel . |