Example sentences of "an [noun] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 2 | Miltiades ' last operation ( in 489 ) against the island of Paros , in the Cyclades , can be seen as an attempt to move on to the offensive against Persia after the defensive stand at Marathon . |
| 3 | giving an errand to take out to the place you know because er if |
| 4 | The Doctor and Blake walked down an alleyway heading back to the entrance to hell . |
| 5 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
| 6 | Indeed there is now an incentive to hold on to the assets because if such assets are retained until death they receive a capital gains tax-free uplift ( TCGA 1992 , s62(1) ) . |
| 7 | The chemical ( 2,4-diamino-5- ( 3,4,5 trimethoxybenzyl ) pyrimidine ) acts as an inhibitor locking on to the active site of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase ( DHFR ) which catalyses the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate in microbial and eucaryotic cells ( see figure ) . |
| 8 | From the square in front of the hotel , an avenue led down to the Corniche where people strolled arm iii arm along the Nile . |
| 9 | Although Peru in 1990 probably bore little resemblance to the place described circa 1948 in our tomes , we were immediately obsessed with an area sloping down to the Amazon Basin to the east of the Andes . |
| 10 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 11 | In 1899 , supported by the outbreak of the Boer War and the boom which followed , the situation looked more promising and Wilson made an effort to go on to the offensive , addressing a circular to leading shipowners asking for a conference to consider four points : a uniform rate of wages for vessels engaged in similar trades ; the supply of articles of agreement some time before men actually signed on ; the establishment of a manning scale , and the improvement of the provisioning of merchant vessels . |
| 12 | He says most of the lads that were out there were in their late teens , early 20 's and for them it was an adventure to go out to the tropics — then when you realise what it was about — well it 's marked us for life there 's no two ways about it . |
| 13 | He traced its origin to his former position in the trade union movement ( hinting that he had an agreement to go back to the TUC where he could make more trouble for any government if they pressed him hard ) . |