Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 2 | I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments . |
| 3 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 4 | Moreover the fractal transform technique provides perceptual resolution independence : zoom in to a picture and instead of getting a blocky , pixellated image , the software gives a realistic effect by actually adding detail in that was n't in the original . |
| 5 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 6 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 7 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 8 | So I told the machine what it was about , and moved on to a golfer and one of the Black and White minstrels . ’ |
| 9 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 10 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 11 | Clytemnestra agreed vociferously , leaping on to a stool and screeching hysterically at sight of her lead . |
| 12 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton used as his studio and bedroom an airy ground-floor room with french windows opening on to a balcony that overlooked the large garden . |
| 13 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 14 | There was nothing in the least bit objectionable about him , but he looked as though he had a computer where his heart was , and rushed home at night to plug in to a socket and recharge the batteries . |
| 15 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 16 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 17 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 18 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
| 19 | It adds up to a recovery but not a boom , Sudhir Junankar , the deputy director of economic affairs said yesterday . |
| 20 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 21 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 22 | All damage to school property must be reported immediately to a teacher or to the Deputy Headmaster . |
| 23 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 24 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 25 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 26 | They can be massaged into the skin , or dropped on to a cloth or pillow to be inhaled . |
| 27 | Jack flopped on to a chair and let his breath out on a sigh . |
| 28 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
| 29 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 30 | I took a quick breath of relief as I heard it ; the engine of another boat , throttling down to a murmur as she crept into the bay . |