Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 2 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 3 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 4 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 5 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 6 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 7 | If you have time , it is worth climbing on to the observation terrace on the site of the tiny Chapel of Holy Mary of Einsiedel which was part of the Theatine Monastery below . |
| 8 | Jonathan Russell , 27 , fell after climbing on to the battlements to take photographs . |
| 9 | After reciting back to the girl her choice , Joy went back to the counter . |
| 10 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 11 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 12 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 13 | Mansell , accompanied by his wife Roseanne , was in emotional mood after hopping on to the stage at the International Motor Sports Federation 's annual prize-giving . |
| 14 | For left Paddington he certainly had , at some point , after ringing through to The Randolph to explain his delayed departure . |
| 15 | After battling through to the end of your course in London , and coming home looking like death warmed up — ’ |
| 16 | A much more glorious surprise was achieved on Fylde Flyer by Piggott after he and the rest of the Abernant Stakes field had been kept waiting in a cold , damp wind while Snaadee took his own unconscionable time about wandering down to the start . |
| 17 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 18 | It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof . |
| 19 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 20 | He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk . |
| 21 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 22 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
| 23 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 25 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 26 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |
| 27 | I 'm very pleased that not a single motorist follows his advice , since if they did the old Hebridean tradition of driving on to the moors would spread to the mainland . |
| 28 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 29 | The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers . |
| 30 | The problem was often of living up to the construction of masculinity . |