Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | It explicitly reversed the accepted Catholic teaching which related freedom only to truth and not to persons , claiming that error had no rights . |
| 6 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 7 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 8 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 9 | The match takes place on June 21 with the winners away to MC Wales or Middlesex on July 6 . |
| 10 | The party 's share of the vote crawled up to barely 35 per cent , thanks largely to Lib Dem deserters . |
| 11 | A blitz baby hungry for love tries to get her hunted German lover away to safety in Canada ; an actor , taunted by his wife for being still soft and weak , replies he 's been ‘ toughened ’ by military service and proves it by strangling her , and a conductor plans to elope with his pianist mistress . |
| 12 | ( Roughly , this involves averaging the usual periodogram in log-log space , giving unbiased independent estimates of known variance , and with distributions close to gaussian . ) |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sure the fans will take this defeat more to heart than me , but it 's only three points down the drain . |
| 14 | Above all , we must remember that music inclines more to emotion than to cerebralism . |
| 15 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 16 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 17 | Being bundled up and escorted from old peoples home to movie premiere , from infant school to racecourse , from hospital to Cup final . |
| 18 | The tooth , for example , is a living organ , at equilibrium with a complex biological environment and set in the mouth close to blood vessels , nerves , sense organs and salivary glands . |
| 19 | When reconnaissance shows that there is a large herd of elephants with young calves close to camp it is often decided to try to capture some of the young elephants first by means of mela shikar . |
| 20 | E Company of the London Irish Rifles was standing-to in Close Order — bayonets fixed and gasmasks on , every officer and man stock still to attention , silent as grotesque dummies in Madame Tussaud 's . |
| 21 | We fly backwards , retracing old tribal routes — dreamed up , or remembered — and into a city walled with honey-coloured stones , where the sage Hanina sends demons home to Hell with their putative tails between their legs , and where King Solomon outwits mighty Ashmodai , Duke of the Underworld , and makes him do the royal bidding like any human flunkey . |
| 22 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 23 | There is a great deal more to time than meets the eye , or has , in fact , ever been ‘ explained ’ by that unprincipled scoundrel , A. Einstein , Esq . |
| 24 | prepare for entry both to employment and higher education |
| 25 | And Joe was so livid when he get in from work he went out and found them and smacked one of these kids nearly to death ! |
| 26 | In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people . |
| 27 | How should we understand the state , its relationships both to society and to individuals ? |
| 28 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 29 | An alternative to post-production commentary addition is to record explanatory comments in the form of speeches straight to camera as you go along . |
| 30 | Teddy has lots of people to thank , including such nice FlyPast -type people as W/C Chris Booth of 8 Squadron who got him flying not only in a Shackleton , but in 8 Squadron 's new Boeing E–3 Spinning Coffee Table ; Teddy 's logbook itself came courtesy of Vulcan XH558 ; thanks also to Plane Sailing , Sally B , the Old Flying Machine Company , the Fighter Collection and the Shuttleworth Collection . |