Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 4 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
| 5 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 6 | Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat . |
| 7 | She alighted after him , and she crossed the footbridge too , but delayed stepping on to the platform until the train for Waterloo came in . |
| 8 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 9 | The collapsed roof tumbled on to the drive and wrecked his car . |
| 10 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 11 | Picking up her tray without the fruit and cake she had planned to take , Belinda left the cafeteria line with tight lips and stiffened shoulders , but , before she had gone very far , Deana had caught up to her , grabbing her upper arm roughly and painfully so that her hot dinner spilled on to the tray and splashed her wrist . |
| 12 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 13 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 14 | He made the claim in a letter to East Belfast MP Peter Robinson , passed on to the Herald and Post this week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As a result , you find yourself hanging on to every word and gesture . |
| 17 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 18 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 19 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 20 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 21 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 25 | So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water . |
| 26 | Nearing the narrows of the loch where the ferry operated , the road climbs a long incline through a forest , emerging in open country and here a branch , formerly the main road , goes down to the hotel and other buildings grouped forlornly around the old ferry pier : it is always sad to see an enterprise that has served its purpose well and has now had its day . |
| 27 | But not to go all the way to Saint-Palais ; rather , after eight miles , turn to the right , over a crest , along a very minor road that goes down to the hamlet and caves of Isturits . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 30 | Rousing herself , she glanced at the huge diamond solitaire on her left hand as if for reassurance , before picking up her luggage and heading for the steps which led down to the landing-stage and the vaporetti . |