Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 2 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 3 | It discusses government policy with them and reports back to the government . |
| 4 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 5 | I 'll stay with you and hold on to the guns . |
| 6 | Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it . |
| 7 | Corbett was just about to leave to collect his cob from the stables when he remembered something and hurried back to the ferrymaster . |
| 8 | During breakfast , when the guest left his room key and tag unattended at the table the criminal replaced the room key with a false one and went up to the room to complete his business undisturbed . |
| 9 | So left him and walked down to the river . |
| 10 | Burns waved cheerfully to him and walked back to the main entrance . |
| 11 | I was determined to see it and I pulled away from him and went up to the box office to pay my penny , hoping he would follow . |
| 12 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 13 | I stepped round him and went back to the house . |
| 14 | She left him and went back to the landing to listen . |
| 15 | She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall . |
| 16 | Gathering himself , he dismissed her and went down to the waiting car . |
| 17 | Instead he swung away from her and strode over to the far side of the room . |
| 18 | Morton released her and wandered back to the window . |
| 19 | And the worst part was , everyone else seemed to understand it and strode out to the quay full of knowledgeable confidence . |
| 20 | I do not cast directly over the swim , but several yards beyond it and draw back to the swim before the bait can settle , covering all areas of the swim and many spots out of it . |
| 21 | Sara left her to it and went out to the kitchen to begin the dinner . |
| 22 | I pushed the black case deep into the hanging space again , stood up outside the door , closed it and went back to the scenes of jollity to the rear . |
| 23 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 24 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 25 | Just mention it and move on to the weather , football , the SDP and whether it will turn political , anything . |
| 26 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 27 | I was bored stupid by it and moved on to the marketing department of an American conglomerate . |
| 28 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 29 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |
| 30 | We threw blankets around us and hurried down to the inner bailey , now filling with servants and retainers who splashed amongst the puddles carrying torches . |