Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 2 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 4 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 5 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 6 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 7 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 8 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 9 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 10 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 11 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 12 | This helped promote political stability , but also led to friction within the government and with its supporters , disappointed in their expectation of a major improvement in living conditions . |
| 13 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |