Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 2 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 3 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 4 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 5 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 6 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 7 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |
| 8 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 9 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 10 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 11 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 12 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 13 | ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in . |
| 14 | Colour Sergeant Skuse has already driven down to the Soviet Checkpoint , one kilometre away in East Germany , to warn the Russians that a British military convoy is expected to enter the city . |
| 15 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television . |
| 17 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 18 | ‘ Major has now gone back to the animal refuge . |
| 19 | The sexual pendulum has now swung back to a more central position , and that 's good news ! |
| 20 | It has now reverted back to a quiet village , disturbed only at weekends by visitors from surrounding areas who come to fish , walk the frontage and watch the departure or arrival of passenger ferries and other shipping . |
| 21 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 22 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |
| 23 | She turns to the visitor , who has now subsided on to a settee . |
| 24 | Although primarily Unix focused , Unify has now come round to the view that the success of Windows and probable success of NT can not be ignored . |
| 25 | Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ . |
| 26 | That is to say we are , we all need renewal and new ideas , but we stick to old quarrels and re-run old battles because we do n't know how to face up to the real problems at the present , nor to find ways of working together for a worthwhile future . |
| 27 | Lloyd 's has belatedly woken up to the need for change . |
| 28 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 29 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 30 | The left has yet to wake up to the new politics as played by the Prime Minister . |