Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , as long as you 're not thinking about makin' me your fancy piece , I 'll do me best to stand up brave to the world . ’ |
| 2 | Apart from that , my only quarrel with the production of the book is a number of printing errors , which should be picked up prior to a second edition . |
| 3 | Passco of Leith Road was also wound up due to a £9,420 debt owed to Lombard Natwest Factors after repeated demands for payment . |
| 4 | In addition to the normal diversion of public utility services in Lasswade Road and Gilmerton Road involving the Water and Drainage Department , SSEB and British Telecom , a major diversion of overhead power lines was carried out prior to the start of the roadworks contract . |
| 5 | A bibliographical search was carried out previous to the award being granted in the period Jan/March 1989 . |
| 6 | Such consent is required , however , for alterations to redundant churches but not if demolition is carried out pursuant to a scheme under the Pastoral Measure . |
| 7 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 8 | The number of dead and injured was expected to rise as rescue teams reached more outlying regions cut off due to the widespread destruction of roads and bridges . |
| 9 | In the morning Kāli took the cattle out to graze , but after a couple of hours she came back soaked to the skin . |
| 10 | By the half year , ten mills will have been closed — to put this into perspective , it is equivalent to the total number of mills operated by prior to the merger . |
| 11 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 12 | Having discovered that , I was then , in April of last year , in France , in Strasbourg , Strasbourg is Leicester 's twin city in France , and as I was wondering through near to the cathedral in Strasbourg , I found a book a book-shop , a second- hand book shop . |
| 13 | They are being sold off due to the end of the Cold War and will supply remote country areas where the food supply is particularly dire . |
| 14 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 15 | The farmer , who was a great coward , did n't like the idea of going back empty-handed to the tiger , but as he could not think of any other plan , he did as he was told . |
| 16 | The news comes less than a month after the release of his latest acclaimed opus , ‘ Jehovakill ’ , and the announcement that three Town & Country club shows had sold out prior to the tour being pulled . |
| 17 | However , the attack , which was thought to have been planned for Kiechle 's 60th birthday party on March 3 in Bavaria , had not taken place and a further letter from the RAF stated that it had been called off due to a " mistake in co-ordination " . |
| 18 | Existing members of pension schemes set up prior to the 1989 Budget or who joined established schemes before 1 June 1989 may not be affected by the rule and may be entitled to a higher tax-free lump sum . |
| 19 | We picked up these four … ’ the speaker indicated the four sullen captives with a jerk of his hunting rifle , ‘ slinkin' around armed to the teeth . ’ |
| 20 | At the USAF base virtually all buildings were razed to the ground , though seventy of the 72 F-16s stationed there had been flown out prior to the hurricane striking . |
| 21 | Both Martin ( jolly hockey sticks ) Hunter and John ( large centre parting ) Richard were brought in due to the absence of Neil Wise , our area sales manager who was away on holiday . |
| 22 | An eleven foot rod may be too long in many instances and these are not the venues to lumber along loaded to the gunnels with tackle and bait . |
| 23 | Finally , he rang his bell and was pulled up unharmed to the surface , where he delivered the emperor 's words to his master . |
| 24 | If these are to be set up prior to the implementation of LMS . |
| 25 | A sole practitioner , Mark Ledger , was brought in to head up the Salisbury office , which Ms Harris had set up prior to the merger ; the new firm set up an insolvency department under Geoffrey Morgan ; and 18 months later another sole practitioner , Philip Parmenter , was brought in to set up another office in Witney , Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
| 27 | Dr Kumar was due to meet the Northern Regional Health Authority to discuss the matter last Thursday , but the NRHA pulled out due to an administrative blunder . |
| 28 | Organisers of the French Open were dealt a double blow by the news that Wimbledon champion Andre Agassi has also pulled out due to a wrist injury . |
| 29 | This is easily the most important leg of the course , where a great deal of place changing can go on due to the huge differences in speed among sailors . |
| 30 | ‘ With all the stuff that had gone on prior to the match and then the conditions we had to play in , the result could have been worse for Rangers but for our goalkeeper , ’ Gough admitted . |