Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 32 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |
| 33 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 34 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 35 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 36 | Then they pushed her , from one man to another , making her stumble as each man greedily explored her body before shoving her on to the next man . |
| 37 | For example , if the broker acquired the stock with a view to selling it on to the customer at a profit , it would have to disclose this fact , the historic price of the stock , the current market price of the stock and the profit on the sale . |
| 38 | It was when he insisted on hauling her off to the sports-wear department that Laura made a really determined effort to bring him to his senses . |
| 39 | " Returnees " were told that they would be well treated on giving themselves up to the local authorities . |
| 40 | The first edition , produced last March , contained 11 opportunities generating 15 enquiries — ‘ which may not seem a lot but in the context of the Scottish market , and the quality criteria we imposed , is impressive ’ — and with second going out to intermediaries — ‘ apart from not being allowed under the Financial Services Act to sent it out to the business community generally , we want to maintain the quality of submissions received ’ — in the last fortnight , Hally sees no reason for second thoughts . |
| 41 | ‘ I guess they 'll get round to dragging it off to the junk yard , ’ said Billie , her arm linked through his as they made their way back towards the car . |
| 42 | You will do that because you think their price will be lower when it comes to delivering them back to the lender at an agreed date . |
| 43 | The president had silenced the vociferous strike-leader by bringing him on to the ruling body . |
| 44 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 45 | Madigan 's Millions was held back from release until American International Pictures decided to take advantage of the success of Midnight Cowboy by foisting it on to the public in 1969 in a double bill with Jon Voight 's early indiscretion , Fearless Frank , also made in 1967 . |
| 46 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 47 | It is a common fallacy that the wind does all the work in a water start by pulling you on to the board . |
| 48 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 49 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 50 | Stanley 's family helped initially by taking him out to the pub , but he was worse on his return . |
| 51 | She hid the cutting in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room — if she took it home Uncle Vernon might get his hands on it and embarrass her by reading it out to the commercial travellers . |
| 52 | However , the policy vacuum which was allowed to develop in this way was inadequately filled by leaving it up to the courts to formulate their own sentencing policy . |