Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home team , well filled with credited Wallabies , led 24–4 before Sole roused the Scots to fight back to a 24-all draw . |
| 2 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 3 | ‘ Irish political parties , and this includes Sinn Fein , must be prepared to assist the British to face up to their responsibilities regarding the Unionists and to face up to our responsibilities towards them also . |
| 4 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 5 | On the desolate stretch over to Braemore junction we passed a young woman walking at the side of the road . |
| 6 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 7 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 8 | On Monday the three move on to the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College for unscripted questions from students in the main hall in their lunch hour . |
| 9 | The money would only go to you , Monks , as the older son , if the younger turned out to be as evil as you . ’ |
| 10 | I stop too ; climb the natural embankment and look over the homeward stretch down to the pueblo . |
| 11 | The crisis of the 1970s turned out to be a crisis of the model itself rather than just another conjunctural swing within its confines . |
| 12 | In 1958 at the Club 's Golden Jubilee celebrations , Charles Luker recalled his early years when the rough lived up to its name and when after each game very golf club head was well rubbed down with emery cloth to prevent it rusting . |
| 13 | The latter lived up to their name with gusto by getting helplessly drunk , being in a celebratory mood because they 'd signed their lucrative CBS contract that very afternoon . |
| 14 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 15 | In 1248 Peter was in Simon 's retinue when the latter went out to Gascony as seneschal and thereafter there are numerous instances of the close connection between the two men . |
| 16 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |
| 17 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 18 | John Kornjaca and Bryn Kerr , restored to the No 8 and scrum-half positions respectively , both had sound games and were well supported in the back row by Edmonds and Bisdee , the latter moving back to his preferred position on the blind side . |
| 19 | They recruit highly-paid expatriates and Mozambicans ; the latter earn up to twenty five times the salary of their colleagues in government service . |
| 20 | Their tangle gave Dare Say the advantage he needed and , despite jumping a path only 100 yards before the line , the nine-year-old held on to win by half a length . |
| 21 | Of course , the Chinese cottoned on to it centuries ago . |
| 22 | Forget the grinning drummer or the antics of the bass player ( the first to go down to stroppy retaliation ) , this band are a scorched earth antidote to faint hearts and floppy fringes . |
| 23 | The first dated back to 1823 . |
| 24 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 25 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 26 | Jacopo della Quercia is divided into two volumes , with the first given over to an account of the artist 's life and works , followed by a concise catalogue . |
| 27 | The first ran up to Strauss ' Life of Jesus , and struggled with the question whether the supernatural and miraculous elements in the gospels should be accepted . |
| 28 | It is argued here that the public sector has a crucial part to play in initiating the first moves back to full employment . |
| 29 | Lawrence 's rising reputation in the years after his death made the critical shift back to realism easier . |
| 30 | The 240 has up to 96Mb RAM and 1.2Gb of disk and is the size of a PC , the company says : it costs from £9,500 . |