Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.

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1 That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important .
2 The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse .
3 Doorways opened off this stone passage right and left , one to give access to the porter 's lodge , the other to a stairway leading up to the gatehouse itself , above the pend , from which the drawbridge and portcullis were managed .
4 A roadside gate opposite admits to a field sloping down to the river ( no path ; no right of way so seek permission to visit ) where , in a wild and impressive setting , the Dee , here flowing in a deep ravine , leaps in a waterfall into a deep pool beneath a high canopy of trees .
5 A clerk came up to the counter .
6 With just five minutes remaining Mathers tipped a Ferguson shot on to the post and Hateley bundled in the rebound from close range .
7 Although the wall was originally orange , a brown shadow in the shape of a fan stretched up to the ceiling above the frying pans on the hob .
8 Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood .
9 A figure climbed on to the roof and came towards them .
10 His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century .
11 Have , in contrast , eliminates any reference to a tension leading up to the realization of the infinitive and represents the latter as being " already in the bag " .
12 A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile .
13 A stranger coming in to the house that you 've never seen before
14 Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism .
15 Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all .
16 He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house .
17 A car pulled up to the fence .
18 A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing .
19 So there is a check built in to the , to the council procedures .
20 I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) .
21 One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context .
22 A cowboy sauntered over to the bar , and sidled up next to them .
23 Right on cue , a butterfly flew up to the plants we were looking at and landed !
24 Smelling the water , Daisy needed no further encouragement and put on a spurt to hurry down to the river .
25 We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower .
26 The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) .
27 Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration .
28 Home is the centre of my life , a place to go out to the world from , a place to return to .
29 For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic .
30 Such testate protozoans have a record extending back to the Cambrian .
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