Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | VETERAN rocker Rod Stewart got to grips with fatherhood at last yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 3 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 4 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 5 | Martin Ward got to his feet , dusting off sand , and they held each others ' eyes for a few moments without speaking . |
| 6 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 7 | Miss Honey got to her feet and walked smartly out of the room , but was back in thirty seconds carrying a thick book . |
| 8 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 9 | Teesside Crown Court heard how blonde Julie Spence agreed to four sex sessions with her husband when they split after ten years of marriage . |
| 10 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 11 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 12 | The issues of Langley 's Forest Eyres in Cumberland and Northumberland amounted to about five times as much as previous eyres had brought in . |
| 13 | Ellis admitted to 22 charges under the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act at Liverpool Magistrates Court yesterday . |
| 14 | Jenkins admitted to ignorance , but covered himself by saying that the selectors did not know the team either . |
| 15 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 16 | Her reluctant pioneering activity in Huntingdonshire led to courses at Eaton Socon , St. Neots and the county town . |
| 17 | Tip-offs by former Stasi officers who had fled to West Germany led to a spate of arrests during 1990 . |
| 18 | Cora-Beth clung to him more tightly . |
| 19 | His forecast for 1985 in the NME led to nothing more than a throwaway : ‘ Disability chic will reign rampantly in 1985 . |
| 20 | Cardiff clung to Rohmer 's gun hand . |
| 21 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 22 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 23 | Pamela whispered to him . |
| 24 | ‘ Sarah read to him , drew for him , took him out in his buggy , even took the top off his yoghurt pots . ’ |
| 25 | William clung to me , laughing . |
| 26 | Throughout the tournament the popular Murray admitted to feeling enormous tension as he battled to stay ahead of a top-class field , which included eight members of the European Ryder Cup team . |
| 27 | In the ruddily-lit belly of the drop-ship , Yeremi clung to one of the serpentine wall grips as the vessel vibrated . |
| 28 | Alexandra got to her feet with difficulty . |
| 29 | David Bowen , secretary of the Northern Ireland FA , said earlier in the day that the matter would be referred to FIFA if Sunderland failed to relent . |
| 30 | Tony Yates applied to the licensing committee to extend his music licence until 12.30am at Brannegans and 2.30am at Club Lucy . |