Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum . |
| 2 | I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’ |
| 3 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 4 | The tailgate of this lorry was cut away and two 4ft long barbed prongs welded on to it . |
| 5 | If the old wires are in good condition the new terminal assembly can be joined on to them , but it may well be better to replace the whole assembly . |
| 6 | Leanne : It 's joined on to me , it starts at my feet . |
| 7 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 8 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 9 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 10 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 11 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 12 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 13 | The biologists and the applied scientists have done this , have offered lectures to school children , mostly in response to requests that have come in to them for specific lectures . |
| 14 | She moved nearer , heedless of Raynor 's warning hand on her arm , not exactly pushing him from her , but summoning , without realising , the authority and the remoteness that had come down to her ; certainly assuming the unconscious imperiousness that she had never known shone from her , and that was shining from her now in the dim , moonlit cell . |
| 15 | She said she had a James III guinea in her possession , an heirloom which had come down to her from her grandfather . ’ |
| 16 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |
| 17 | Now it 's come down to it , they 're all assholes in our family , to put it politely . |
| 18 | Ezra ha-kohen not only played the leading role in reordering the nation 's religious establishment ( re-establishment ) , but was almost certainly responsible for a great deal of the safeguarding and consolidation by which the scriptures have come down to us today . |
| 19 | Recently , Susan Keefe has listed no fewer than sixty-one treatises on baptism which have come down to us in manuscripts from the Carolingian age . |
| 20 | Among the conventions for the division of time that have come down to us from Imperial Rome is the seven-day week . |
| 21 | They form the largest single category of medieval manuscripts that have come down to us , and all later prayerbooks derive from them . |
| 22 | In addition several verbal sketches have come down to us : William Hazlitt first met Wordsworth in 1798 and recorded this description : |
| 23 | Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation . |
| 24 | It was he who wrote the famous book which has come down to us by its Arab translation , and is known as the Almagest . |
| 25 | By using such evidence the historian can come to terms with some of the everyday reality of the war , and how it touched the lives and outlook of men and women , famous and not so famous , rich and poor , whose experiences are described in the proceedings of civil and criminal cases which have come down to us in some number . |
| 26 | In fact the definition has come down to us unchanged from the Agriculture Act 1947 , and includes all land used for , among other things , dairy farming , livestock breeding and keeping , grazing or meadows . |
| 27 | Moreover , if we explore the course of English Literature , if we consider from what source its stream has sprung , by what tributaries it has been fed , and with how rich and full current it has come down to us , we shall see that it has other advantages not to be found elsewhere . |
| 28 | The numbers in which cameos of the Classical period have come down to us is one testimony to the regard they have inspired in men of ensuing ages . |
| 29 | Thus from this moment , the beginning of the classical period , when bronze becomes the favourite material for freestanding statues , the number of originals which has come down to us is sadly small . |
| 30 | On the way to Upper Halling we find that the names have come down to us unaltered , to our right we have Yew Tree Kill , which has disappeared into the chalk quarry , also the Vicarage Close , further on and still on our right is Foxes ' Hole , a name that has continued down to this day . |