Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through teaching he enjoys being able to pass his skills on to others and is confident that he will soon have his new pupils rocking and rolling , quickstepping and cha-cha-chaaing the night away . |
| 2 | He landed eventually at Stabiae ( near the present Castellammare ) , where things were still fairly tolerable , and there he encountered a friend of his , one Pomponianus , who was making frantic preparations to escape , loading his possessions on to ships and fretting for a favourable wind so that he could put to sea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People who dangle wires or ropes on to power lines to see what happens are playing with fire . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only things he does n't like are the narrow ramps on to aeroplanes , so we have to get behind him with a broom . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even the early Christians are said to have thrown coins on to Peter 's tomb for good fortune . ’ |
| 9 | It 's less than 40 minutes down to Grantown , just floating . |
| 10 | Around a surrealistic voice sampled from some US TV slot ( where a female patient is explaining her habit of grinding her teeth down to stumps in her sleep ) and a garbled vocal , Therapy ? build up a wall of solid playing that only they can eventually tear down . |
| 11 | After I 'd thrown the bag in , I read the instructions and the small print said it would only remove nitrates down to 20ppm . |
| 12 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 13 | SFA 's rules relating to futures follow this tenet by application of the relevant rules only to circumstances where they are required , for example by limiting them to private investors , to contingent liability transactions or to margined transactions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 16 | At the sideboard he crashed two covers on to silver dishes . |
| 17 | Flared greaves on to shanks ; magnetic boots locking into the greaves … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Burnet Park Zoo in Syracuse , New York , has passed one of its lars on to New York State University at Stony Brook for non-invasive experiments on muscle movements . |
| 21 | Or for after dinner chocolates , flavour melted chocolate with a little liqueur or flavouring essences , drop blobs on to paper and leave to set . |
| 22 | Helen Booth , Andrea Brownsword and Rohela Mumir from James Brindley High School spent three weeks in the lithography department at Barlaston transferring their Easter egg designs on to mugs . |
| 23 | The slave trade and slavery subsumed many of these tensions and ambivalences , giving a focus to the categories of question troubling many English men and women and did so by directing powerful anxieties on to phenomena at some geographical and social distance from most people . |
| 24 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
| 25 | Doctor Who , especially nowadays , is the type of programme they put fairly new Designers on to test their abilities . |
| 26 | If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures . |
| 27 | When I was the head of the Orchestre de Paris , they used to send inspectors along to auditions — until I refused to admit them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the end of the promenade they could take a flight of steps down to rocks that were slippery with seaweed , and clamber over them until they reached the shingle . |
| 30 | Green sometimes accompanied by his wife , was often in Keswick on business ( he would set off walking from Ambleside , and be picked up by the carrier at Wyburn ) and would call to visit his children , and take them out for walks down to Derwentwater . |