Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ferrymaster was absent across the Forth so Corbett told his escort to rest ; they opened their provisions , ate and drank and then lay on the sand-strewn grass , enjoying the warm noon sun and listening to the birds overhead and the constant chatter of the bees and crickets . |
| 2 | From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted . |
| 3 | If the plaintiff is under a disability settlement of the action has to be approved by the court under RSC Ord 80 , r13 or CCR Ord 10 , r10 ; so too if the claim is under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 as amended and more than one person is entitled to the damages even though no one is under a disability . |
| 4 | They take to the waters here and |
| 5 | As reconditioned they had new B.T-H. 509c motors and line switch attachments fitted to the controllers so that they could be used interlocked with air brakes . |
| 6 | Did you did you originally when you actually erm applied to get a council place did you did you s did you want to move to the flats here or did you apply for put other |
| 7 | They went to the races so that he could study form , so that Lily might be seen in the outfits chosen with such care in London in February . |
| 8 | And er there was the er the kids from his erm he w he was going to school when he died and er there was children from his class walking along cos they we they used to walk to the cemeteries then and carrying a wreath of er flowers , I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
| 9 | The 6,020 square-metre terrace is capped by three unequal cones , admitting light to the areas below and symbolising the classic triad of the visual arts : architecture , painting and sculpture . |
| 10 | This ( comment ) just goes to show that either the Chinese leadership is totally insensitive to the feelings here or they do n't care what happens anymore . ’ |
| 11 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 12 | The right-hand chambers of the heart pump ‘ used ’ blood to the lungs so that it can absorb oxygen . |
| 13 | Bruce had in fact been contemplating a withdrawal to the hills rather than risk a head-on clash with forces which so visibly outnumbered his own . |
| 14 | because it is becoming increasingly difficult to be nice to the Conservatives particularly when you produce something like this |
| 15 | Yet , having done this , it should pay particular attention to the emotions rather than to the ‘ facts ’ , or the rationalizations and justifications we all tend to use in order to shroud our feelings , especially in times of stress . |
| 16 | In the same way , we think that credit agreements could usefully include a strike-out clause , arranging credit insurance and adding its cost to the instalments automatically unless it is struck out . |
| 17 | And I refer to the directors rather than the scores of people behind the scenes at Williams . |
| 18 | It meant that business was devalued relative to the professions so that even now a career in business ranks second in the minds of many new graduates to a career in one of the more established professions . |
| 19 | The class has to come to the cameras rather than the camera going into the classroom . |
| 20 | we 've had it , went , he went back to the doctors today and she said it could take up to six to eight weeks to get out your system . |
| 21 | Images of urbanism and modernism aggressively projected by the mass media act as a powerful pressure on rural young people to move to the towns even though living conditions there may be vastly inferior to those which they leave . |
| 22 | ‘ Once this is ready it must get to the plates quickly while it 's hot . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ drawled Odell unexpectedly , ‘ he did go to the kidnappers alone and unarmed — except for some goddam marzipan . |
| 24 | The method used ( and you may well think of a better one ! ) is to drive two brass gimp or panel pins into the panel on each side of each of the l.e.d.s such that the l.e.d. wires can be looped around ( no tightness here ) and be soldered to the pins rather as Fig. 6 shows . |
| 25 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 26 | The teachers ' union even submitted the draft constitution to the bishops so as to get it right . |
| 27 | this Swedish consensus is a precedent to the development of certain institutional forms rather than a result of them , and it would be useless for Britain to look to the forms rather than to the antecedent substance . |
| 28 | Nuadu of the Silver Arm , submitting to the sorcerers so that he might be made whole again . |
| 29 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 30 | I want people to be able to listen to the records over and over again and I think for that to happen you have to create a depth of information that 's rock solid . |