Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 198l there was a government White Paper entitled New Training Initiatives which set out the aims of these schemes : to develop skill-training , to provide further education or work-related training for everyone up to the age of 18 , and to offer adults the chance to update their skills . |
| 2 | So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed . |
| 3 | They could raise between them up to ten thousand men in that great remote province ; and at the same time assail the western Douglas strength . |
| 4 | For me back to basics is how I find most of the time to run my own life , which is there are two teams and on the one hand there 's compassion , integrity and courage |
| 5 | A more commonly cited figure , however , was of total casualties of 100,000 , of whom up to 35,000 might have been killed . |
| 6 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 7 | WORMS stopped play in the Wiltshire tennis championships after heavy rain drove scores of them on to the Marlborough courts . |
| 8 | Michael Swinton cut bread , thick satisfying slices and speared one of them on to Alexandra 's plate . |
| 9 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 10 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 11 | Dista handed some of them over to the CSM in October , four months later . |
| 12 | They do it in and up the road in Peterborough they 've got about thirty eight community centre and the labour run council there is handing every one , every one of them over to the local communities . |
| 13 | One day , much to Dustin 's irritation , she asked the driver of the limo that was taking the two of them back to Manhattan to stop because she saw a wishing star in the sky . |
| 14 | The argument goes that if we had short-range nuclear weapons at the front , in the event of a rapid advance there would always be the danger that a commander would have no choice but to use those weapons , either because he could not get rid of them back to headquarters , or perhaps to start a nuclear conflagration . |
| 15 | disk is fifty six million bytes in size , and er you used most of them down to three million left available . |
| 16 | An hour later , as he drove the pair of them down to Oxford , Lewis felt strangely content . |
| 17 | Some of them down to six and seven . |
| 18 | The dowager did her best to satisfy the nobility by trailing a number of them off to France , and getting pensions for them — even if some , like the master of Ruthven , complained about the shabbiness of the pay-off : . |
| 19 | ‘ What were the two of you up to ? ’ |
| 20 | Martinho had told them of everything up to the time of his own escape . |
| 21 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 22 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 23 | well I think she 's been fully occupied with your stuff since she came back , she has n't touched any of mine up to last night |
| 24 | Because Granby House was a listed building , the contractor eventually became exempt from this tax , but as he could not reclaim any VAT he had already paid to suppliers , he had to pass most of it on to the developer . |
| 25 | ‘ Not much evidence of it up to now . |
| 26 | Although there was a great deal of debate about education after 1944 , much of it up to 1951 focused on the eradication of class differences , not gender differences , in an endeavour to build a more buoyant economy and develop a substantial welfare state . |
| 27 | And another had capped that : ‘ Aye — send a dollop of it down to London ! ’ |
| 28 | I put a lot of it down to Harry Enfield ; just this week he 'd really taken off . |
| 29 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 30 | Mozart was often able to report performances of it back to his father . |