Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone .
2 Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life .
3 On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom .
4 It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface .
5 She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin .
6 I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager .
7 As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England .
8 The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh .
9 This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees .
10 ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’
11 However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced .
12 The track eventually drops down to a road .
13 This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) .
14 A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture .
15 You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto !
16 Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam .
17 3 Stir in the peanut butter and gently bring back to the boil until the sauce thickens and goes glossy and smooth .
18 I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them .
19 He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor .
20 Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain .
21 A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term .
22 The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape .
23 We got in to drive down to the medina .
24 One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’
25 They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’
26 and you slid down twisting on to the grass .
27 The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea .
28 This obviously adds on to the cost of your basic computer but if you are a small business it is n't an enormous amount .
29 The subsequent departure of both Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett and the passing of the years in general have all added up to a change of direction for the band .
30 Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life .
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