Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked covertly across the table at her , at the vital face , the dark eyes , the generous , amused mouth , the blue-black hair loosely knotted on to the crown of her head , so that curls and tendrils clung around the perfect oval of her face . |
| 2 | Owing to a bizarre mix-up between a Japanese morse operator in the South China Sea , and new early closing times at Whaddon Post Office , when football finally got back to normal in 1946 , Athletico , now fielding eleven internationals , found themselves in the Mid-Counties Combination instead of the higher Mid-Counties South-West League ( Northern Division ) . |
| 3 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 4 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 5 | The delegation then moved on to South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 6 | The interview then moved on to the consideration of the Head of Department 's departmental work , but kept drifting back to his ambition for wider experience . |
| 7 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 8 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 9 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 10 | Westminster Evening Institute also settled down to serious work . |
| 11 | Among those giving evidence were two care workers , who said the girl regularly arrived back to the home in the early hours of the morning and sometimes not at all . |
| 12 | His indignation frequently boiled over to a point where he thought and demanded that a libel writ should be issued . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether it would be helpful , sir , if Mrs could indicate on the plan recently handed in to you |
| 14 | It is regrettable that your esteemed publication never got round to featuring him in his lifetime ; perhaps you could put the record straight now . |
| 15 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 16 | A gold ring from the port of Mochlos shows a goddess sailing on a boat with a shrine apparently built on to the afterdeck conveying a portable shrine from one coastal site to another . |
| 17 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 18 | In the most draconian punishment ever handed out to Scottish internationalists , Billy Bremner , Joe Harper , Pat McCluskey , Willie Young and Arthur Graham were told they would never play for their country again . |
| 19 | The Commissariat for War still hung on to 752 coaches ; the Commissariat for Health had no fewer than 2,718 , and was even demanding a further 1,200 . |
| 20 | As other members of the pride moved in to share the meal , the remaining zebras in the herd at first startled by the drama quickly settled back to grazing . |
| 21 | Angy always played up to a man … any man . |
| 22 | Her mother 's friends , Lizzie Braithwaite and Maria Colclough and Ethel Lord were incensed by it , having used the act of sex all their wedded lives as something to bargain with , employing their very contempt for it as a punishment regularly meted out to husbands who lusted after the nasty performance far too much . |
| 23 | This tower was never the property of the Jesuit Church as the town tenaciously held on to it for fire-watching . |
| 24 | This smacks of something akin to censorship , as one impeccably non-racist European festival director sadly pointed out to me . |
| 25 | Earnings per share only edged up to 4.82p , from 4.77p , but a final dividend of 3.4p ( 3.3p ) lifts the total from 4.8p to 4.9p . |
| 26 | Starting from the simplest and most chaste of forms , rooted in a combination of pioneering vernacular and colonial buildings , the American station swiftly moved on to a riot of revivalist and hybrid styles in a complex process of architectural grafting which mirrored the increasingly diverse origins of its immigrant population . |
| 27 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 29 | As a male student once pointed out to me in a moment of inspiration , it does n't make sense to say both that women 's talk is trivial and that it is ‘ deep ’ compared to men 's . |
| 30 | I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows |