Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 2 | As an undercover customs agent based in Tampa , Florida , it was his suggestion to target a small-time Colombian drug-money launderer called Gonzalo Mora Jnr that eventually led to the uncovering of a huge laundering operation centred on BCCI . |
| 3 | Unknown to the Orcs , the crown was working its power upon Azhag , for it was an ancient and evil device that once belonged to the Liche Lord Nagash himself , and his power and his spirit still clung to it . |
| 4 | In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) . |
| 5 | The name is an ancient word referring to a Saxon village that once stood to the north of Darlington between Beaumont Hill and Walworth . |
| 6 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 7 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 8 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 9 | Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans . |
| 10 | He began to establish a reputation in the late 40s through radio performances , and soon came to the attention of Sam Phillips , with releases on the Chess and Sun labels , playing as a one-man band . |
| 11 | After seeing Mr Stephens disappear around the corner , she examined the small room minutely , the books on the shelf — reading out all their titles aloud — the three prints on the wall , " The Education of the Young Raleigh " , " Derwentwater at Dawn " and " The Drunkard 's Children " — drew her boots appreciatively over the mat , picked up the jug of pencils and finally came to the oven which was next to the sink . |
| 12 | Other girls at Group included ‘ Jolly Molly ’ — plump and good-natured ; Harriet , who was trying to improve her mind and always listened to the afternoon plays on BBC radio ( relayed to each hut over the Tannoy system ) ; Veronique , who was stage-mad and had a friend in the current London production of Lady Windermere 's Fan , and dough-faced Olive ( more about her a bit further on ) . |
| 13 | This poem extolled the achievements of Robert Bruce and Sir James Douglas — the Good Sir James — and directly appealed to the patriotism of the Scots . |
| 14 | She took part in a number of land occupations and later went to the capital to work for FECCAS there . |
| 15 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 16 | This work led to our modern knowledge of atomic masses and also led to the discovery of new elements . |
| 17 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |
| 18 | The more direct inspiration for the Situationists was the Dada-Lettrist connection which provided the aesthetic and political basis for their adoption of non-cognitive methods of expression ( such as automatism , chance and other depersonalising techniques of production ) and also led to the definition of some key terms in their vocabulary . |
| 19 | I was so angry that I wrote a furious letter to him accusing him of being un-Christian and ignorant , and also wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury , whom I also regard as ineffectual . |
| 20 | This Bishop found the palace and other buildings neglected and in a ruinous condition and carried out a great deal of repair work to the palace and also added to the building ( to quote ) , " in a most commodious manner " . |
| 21 | A third point was that Crown counsel at the trial , Mr. Pantry , improperly tried to cross-examine the defendant and also commented to the jury on the defendant 's exercise of the right to silence and that the trial judge was wrong not to correct him . |
| 22 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 23 | Mrs Levine argues with some conviction and at great length that the break-up of Asquith 's romance with Venetia was centrally shattering to the prime minister , was directly responsible for his flaccid performance in the contemporaneous creation of the 1915 Coalition , and indirectly led to the decline of his grip and power and to the end of the Liberal party as a governing force . |
| 24 | Yates was questioned by police soon after and immediately confessed to the killing . |
| 25 | Adams stated that whilst he and Moore were at supper he saw an unusual light in the direction of the Body Shop but , instead of going to see what it was and turning on the water from the hydrants to endeavour to arrest the progress of the flames , he caused the alarm bell to be rung and then ran to the gate to admit the Fire Brigade . |
| 26 | The spell was broken , the pool was rippled from its serenity by the way he snapped instructions to her and then ran to the Administration block . |
| 27 | He waved his arms about a fair bit and then disappeared to the back of the shop to be joined by , I presume , his wife for moral support . |
| 28 | I drove away slowly and then came to the corner of Union and Gloucester . |
| 29 | They waited several minutes and then went to the back of the building where the family 's living quarters were . |
| 30 | She straightened up , wiping her forehead with the bottom of her apron , and then went to the dresser to open the drawer . |