Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 2 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 3 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 4 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 5 | It was not a well-attended affair — perhaps fifteen people , mainly old women , at the church , few of whom came on to the cemetery . |
| 6 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 7 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 8 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 9 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
| 10 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 11 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 12 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
| 14 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 15 | And somehow , he could n't imagine either of them coming around to the house for some beers and a pizza and a John Wayne movie on the video . |
| 16 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 17 | I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them . |
| 18 | The Justice Model asserted two central principles , both of which harked back to the classicism of Beccaria . |
| 19 | Scott , Hogg , Lockhart and other literary stalwarts are reputed to have frequented this old hunting inn , part of which dates back to the 18th century . |
| 20 | Amaranth was wearing what appeared to be a blue-black overcoat with square shoulders , the skirts of which came down to the knee . |
| 21 | That is because the deeper issues of the party divide lay elsewhere — in the political , constitutional and , in particular , the religious tensions which have been explored in this book , many of which dated back to the Restoration . |
| 22 | There are three churches in the village including All Saints , parts of which date back to the 15th century . |
| 23 | Auctioneers Outhwaite and Litherland are selling the 40 antique fans , some of which date back to the beginning of the century . |
| 24 | Well does it follow then that both of you went over to the bed , that 's what I 'm getting at . |
| 25 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 26 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 27 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 28 | thought it should be in there cos it 's normally Okay now all that happens here if you if you think of it going back to the picture with the the magnets or the electrostatic charges or or bonds whatever you like to think of it . |
| 29 | Miranda cut her toast with such force that a corner of it flew on to the floor . |
| 30 | On the export side , he specialises in bankrupt stock — at least , it 's nominally for export , but we suspect that a good deal of it comes back to the home market at ten times the price . |