Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings !
2 There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway .
3 She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening .
4 On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on .
5 ‘ I keep thinking she might have gone out on to the balcony instead . ’
6 The expanse of beach was so denuded of any trace of the present century we might have stepped out on to a distant planet .
7 If I had so wished , I could have climbed out on to the wing and with the use of a telephoto got an unusual shot of the unique S-shaped ground with its mock-Wembley turrets in terracotta .
8 Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception .
9 Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter .
10 Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere .
11 One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top .
12 Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace .
13 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
14 In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery .
15 Denholm , who had moved out on to the starboard wing , returned , lowering his binoculars .
16 Jasper had got down on to the floor and was grubbing about under the carpet .
17 And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility .
18 Nutty discussed the problem one night with Biddy after the others had set off back to the factory .
19 The Muslim 's bird had gone back on to the offensive , swooping down with its spurs and ripping a great gash along its enemy 's cheek .
20 Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing .
21 When Rohmer and Duvall had stepped down on to the top of the basement landing , Cardiff followed them , carefully letting the door close behind him .
22 One Fascist who had climbed out on to the ledge prudently withdrew , and the windows were closed .
23 But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head .
24 The official explanation was that a finish flag had blown down on to the mechanism and the timing had run on .
25 Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again .
26 with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ?
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