Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 2 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 3 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
| 4 | She ushered the girl inside and sent her to the bathroom . |
| 5 | They stuffed a sock into her mouth , pushed her inside and kicked her to the floor breaking her ankle and wrist . |
| 6 | If you wish to join , you should complete the membership form below and send it to The Royal Air Forces Association , 43 Grove Park Road , Chiswick , London W4 3RX , together with your remittance for the appropriate membership fee . |
| 7 | All you have to do to book is fill in the coupon below and send it to the address given with £1.50 to cover postage and administration . |
| 8 | If you feel strongly about this issue , then please vote on the form below and send it to the editorial offices to arrive by 18th May . |
| 9 | Please take the time to fill it in and return it to the address below by June 1 1992 . |
| 10 | Its secondary antennae have become adapted , forming claws with which it digs in and fastens itself to the delicate gill lamellae . |
| 11 | ‘ The two of you rolled it up planks on to the truck , roped it down and drove it to the site ; is that right ? ’ |
| 12 | She runs away but it bears down and casts her to the ground . |
| 13 | It 's gravity that pulls you down and presses you to the floor . |
| 14 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
| 15 | ‘ The initial plan was to put companies together and bring them to the market . ’ |
| 16 | Its official name is atheroma , and its three main ingredients are platelets , the tiny blood cells that are the raw material for any blood clot ; fibrin , a stringy protein that forms a three-dimensional mesh to entrap the platelets ; and cholesterol , which binds the whole lot together and sticks it to the sides of blood vessels . |
| 17 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 18 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 19 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 20 | From the seller 's point of view , rather than expose himself to the vagaries of litigation , and the need to negotiate with each buyer as to exactly what remedies are appropriate in each case , it is preferable to set out a specific and detailed procedure which deals with the remedying of defects . |
| 21 | In Rome , the Iranian chargé d'affaires rushed off to the seaside rather than commit himself to the Shah 's uncertain cause . |
| 22 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 23 | We may not yet be a vigilante state but there is no doubt that more people feel compelled to mete out their own justice rather than entrust it to the police and courts . |
| 24 | Although it may be beneficial to address this point at this stage rather than leave it to the flotation , the alternative argument is that such matters can only be decided at the time of flotation when the parties are better able to assess what is commercially necessary to achieve an optimum result . |
| 25 | Of course , you may prefer to choose outside alliances rather than restrict yourself to the family , but in times of hardship the family may be more dependable . |
| 26 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 27 | They have been fighting to keep their current size for more than three years , claiming that they wish to keep the school open to all-comers , rather than limit it to the number of children in Episcopalian families . |
| 28 | Because we , we have a large amount of cash which it suits us to get rid of rather than take it to the bank er to be added up and charged for cash handling . |
| 29 | What you are aiming at is a steady indication on the localiser needle , rather than returning it to the centre . |
| 30 | The touchline was the launchpad — more so against Ireland than France — of some of Scotland 's best driving mauls and highlighted the danger of players swelling defensive ranks rather than committing themselves to the maul . |