Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We both wobbled then , through hours of stones and velvet dusk to the hut , where Sal went straight to bed , leaving me with two soups , two teas and a bottle of wine to deal with .
2 It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods .
3 The boys all nodded but Benjamin and Sarah went back to bed .
4 Still laughing , she set off , and Sophie settled down to morning surgery .
5 Number and percentage applied directly to leg ulcers in EHA , PNK and LFV
6 He stays down here at night and he wo n't go if Joy went up to bed he wo n't go with her .
7 When they had finished delivering all the presents , the reindeers returned to Greenland and Randolph went straight to bed , happily , because it was quite late for a reindeer .
8 The moon and man stepped up to Le-eyo together , and the god became confused , saying ‘ Man , die and remain away ; moon , die and return ’ as he sprinkled them with the reversed charms .
9 February turned into March and Albert came back to school .
10 Ref Kenneth Leach sent the keeper off and Kearney stepped up to rifle in the penalty for Crewe 's fourth goal .
11 He turned well in the box before hitting the outside of the post , but Aberdeen held on to go level with Motherwell and Hearts at the top of the table .
12 He turned well in the box before hitting the outside of the post , but Aberdeen held on to go level with Motherwell and Hearts at the top of the table .
13 Dave Rogers went for broke … went for the line on his own and made it … a great effort but Coventry held on to win by thirty four points to fifteen …
14 Mrs Westaway took Breeze upstairs to wash her hands and face while Roger went round to Sunset Cottage to explain matters to Susan .
15 One thousand and ninety five days of a stinking bucket in the corner while Pete looked forward to dinner .
16 They then returned to the Print Room , while guests went in to luncheon in the Great Hall .
17 But first things first , and while Duncan headed back to town with the VW riding piggyback on his truck , I turned back towards Maidstone and the hospital .
18 This was perfectly effective , since leaders knew how to motion with their instrument to give the tempo while playing , not to mention other techniques . ’
19 Erm it says er before Jesus ascended in to heaven , He gave a final command which was ?
20 He played three times for the Gentlemen against the Players between 1953 and 1955 as Surrey forged on to Championship victory after victory .
21 As guests sat down to lunch in the company 's magnificent dining room earlier this week , the fellow with his back to the window was asked if there was too much of a draught .
22 IT was a warm evening , but when Emmie went up to bed Alice was lying with the blankets drawn up to her chin , grey as a rat in the face and shivering .
23 When Georg came in to lunch , covered in cow muck and mud , the converging smells caused Frau Trauffer to wave her hand in the air and give a disgusted ‘ Phaw ! ’
24 And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper .
25 I moved to the back of my trench as Taff stood up to man the gun .
26 When death struck close to home it was not easy to accept such counsel , nor to see God 's design .
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