Example sentences of "to [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mushtaq , who had been spinning widely to Gower out of the rough , drifted a glorious topspinner through that doughty defence to unseat England 's skipper for 135 . |
| 2 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 3 | The management intend he will remain with the party , though obviously the lengthy bus journey to Nadi yesterday as the prelude to a three-and-a-half hour flight to Sydney today , could have a detrimental effect . |
| 4 | However , the significance of the above cases is not confined to activities not in the nature of commercial ventures or to the past or to contracting out by government . |
| 5 | When my right hon. Friend goes to Barrow later in the week , will he congratulate Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. and its work force there on the excellent job that they have done in constructing the vessels to specification and to schedule ? |
| 6 | Pressure from recreation on these open areas is usually considerable , with consequently much disturbance to birds particularly in the breeding season . |
| 7 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 8 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 9 | We do that in relation to negligence generally in the civil courts , but not in the criminal courts . ’ |
| 10 | where defendants conduct leads plaintiff to incur expense in the reasonable belief that the action will proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay , the defendant is estopped from claiming that the action should be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of delay — even if the E limitation period has expired . |
| 11 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 12 | Following discussion of the new legislation on Health and Safety of workstations , it was agreed that £5,000 should be transferred from Computing Budget to Estates specifically for the purchase of chairs , screen filters , footrests and document holders to meet EC Regulations . |
| 13 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 14 | Soon the calls were going out to groups all over the country . |
| 15 | Fan-assisted flue ducts allow some fires to be used up to 4m away from the outside wall — they are often skirting flues , which run along a skirting board to an outside wall , and an be used to complement a limited range of conventional fires . |
| 16 | Are you going to Guildford tomorrow in the lorry ? |
| 17 | The proposals , if adopted , would mean it 'll be a criminal offence to camp anywhere without the land owner 's permission … and would give local councils the right to tow away and seize any illegally parked vehicles . |
| 18 | At Birlik ( Unity ) , a radical nationalist movement , they are forced to camp out at the decrepit Writers ' Union building , where rotting rubbish is piled high in the corridor . |
| 19 | obviously going to buck out of the |
| 20 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 21 | Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden . |
| 22 | He rang me up last night to say that he is more or less confined to barracks now in the evening now that Phil is home . |
| 23 | Dee makes plenty of long journeys to clubs all over the country usually in a hired Ford Fiesta , as he does n't own a car . |
| 24 | As one of five kids living in the shadow of Filbert Street , Dublin wrote to clubs all over the country and landed a chance at Norwich . |
| 25 | It all depends on the scrap merchant , like they used to send a lot of scrap iron erm from Ipswich to Germany just before the war , well they used to send they reckon they send to Danzig |
| 26 | They were on the brow of a little hill and Sara walked farther on to look down on the county spread in front of her , idly trying to recognise familiar landmarks — It was a travel-ad view — neat lush fields , trim hedgerows , a farmhouse nestling in amongst its windbreak of trees , a sheet of yellow on the far hills where a field of mustard was in bloom , and for the rest , a thousand different shades of the greens of high summer , a piece of England basking in the sun and as beautiful as any foreign strand . |
| 27 | He started to distinguish himself as an athlete of no mean promise and , understandably , invitations to meetings out of the area were forthcoming . |
| 28 | The easiest way to solve the problem is to feed a high-fat , complete food which has been scientifically balanced for the working/hyperactive dog , rather than to play around with the ingredients yourself . |
| 29 | Bicester rugby club drive towards another Twickenham appearance when they travel to Ongar tomorrow in the quarter finals of the Provincial Cup . |
| 30 | This theory of scientific development has been contested ; others have pointed to more incremental patterns , or to cases especially in the social sciences where paradigms do not displace each other but simply accumulate as alternative perspectives . |