Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it 's all there , complete with toilet paper , which you use and then deftly wind back on to the roll . |
| 2 | Nicola sat down on the floor and slowly rolled over on to her back . |
| 3 | She held the tip of it just inside her pouting snatch , and only sank down on to it when she saw the door opening . |
| 4 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 5 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 6 | Thus far The Buddha of Suburbia is autobiographical : thereafter Karim and Hanif go their separate ways , only getting back on to the same tracks when they both flee north of the river to west London . |
| 7 | So fuck off back to your dormitories now before I 'm tempted to pontificate even longer . |
| 8 | ‘ When you create chances , especially against Hearts , and do n't take them , then you ca n't have any complaints , ’ admitted McLean after literally coming back down to earth . |
| 9 | I took thirteen and I 've got some of me old Diodide so went back on to them . |
| 10 | Only to wake up back to reality with a small , secret smile on her lips . |
| 11 | Then Edgley found an unplayable lie off the tee ; James could only hack out on to the fairway and Dorset lost the hole to a five . |
| 12 | You 'd better come back up to town . |
| 13 | So come back down to earth ! |
| 14 | The Volvo left the ground for precious seconds , flying through the air before finally crashing back down to earth with a sickening jolt that jarred every bone in her body . |
| 15 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 16 | I was feeling so tired that I just sank down on to a bench , and — ’ |
| 17 | He would prefer not to come back on to my patch , and he has his own investments to look after in the City . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I was going to just keel over on to your shoulder and blurt it out : I love you , I love you … ’ |
| 19 | a car behind me , the car behind that just pulled out on to the wrong side of the road , sat there looking and decided not to and pulled back |
| 20 | Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room . |
| 21 | She began to pace about and finally went out on to the balcony to watch the mountains and try to take her mind off a pain that she was sure would keep her awake all night . |
| 22 | Now that you 're down to an average of 68 pages , why not run back up to 84 with the features that made you great . |
| 23 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 24 | A spot will throw a concentrated circle of light and is therefore best directed down on to , say , a bowl of flowers or a plant . |
| 25 | A quick but careful briefing would , in most cases , prevent incidents such as someone lifting a wing without first checking that the other wing will not come down on to another glider 's canopy . |
| 26 | All week the phoney war has raged as the populations of San Francisco and Oakland have , under licence of sport , declared their allegiance to one of two baseball teams who tonight march out on to a field to contest the title of world champions . |
| 27 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 28 | Very , very slow moving there indeed , and it 's going very very slowly heading out on to the A40 . |
| 29 | Long term oral propranolol treatment or repeated endoscopic injection sclerotherapy are similarly effective in reducing rebleeding that still occurs in up to 60% of patients and neither have been shown consistently to improve survival . |
| 30 | ‘ Your brothers wo n't be back until tomorrow , ’ her father replied , still staring out on to the street . |