Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the circumstances , the article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case ; it would not have impaired judicial authority or added much to the growing moral pressure on the manufacturers to settle the claim . |
| 2 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 3 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 4 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 5 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 6 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 7 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 8 | From her seat she could see the winding road that led up to the elegant gateway of Casa Madrid , and she could even see the sprinklers sending blessed water swirling over the melon and pineapple fields . |
| 9 | This wedge-shaped promontory that led up to the isolated rock on which the castle itself stood was nowhere quite sheer , and stunted trees rooting precariously in its crevices afforded cover for one solitary boy , though they would not have hidden an approach in numbers . |
| 10 | Casually , keeping a light touch on Haminh 's mind , she wandered over to the metal ramp that led up to the residential walkway , encouraging Haminh with light touches to turn into the gangpath instead of walking straight past to her own doorway . |
| 11 | Ben stood before the shallow flight of steps that led up to the main entrance , his head tilted back as he studied the frontage . |
| 12 | The path ended at the wide stone steps that led up to the main entrance of the lodge . |
| 13 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 14 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 15 | He waved behind him towards one of the French windows that led out to the formal gardens surrounding the palace . |
| 16 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 17 | He wandered towards the doors that opened on to the wet street , and stared out at the people hurrying along the pavements , feet splashing in puddles , sodden raincoats , barging umbrellas , gleaming cycle capes . |
| 18 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 19 | The front end , continually revised in the Dino range , was tidied up again , this time with pop-up headlamps , deleting the sole styling detail that dated back to the late '50s and early '60s . |
| 20 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 21 | They began as small , elitist institutions that owed much to the 19th century concept of the German university . |
| 22 | The manual is not only one of the most interesting documents to come out of the Sultanate , it is also one of the most precious keys we have to the concerns that meant most to the war-obsessed amirs of Tughluk Delhi . |
| 23 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 24 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 25 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 26 | In fact Weill 's American years represent a serious struggle to find a way of addressing his lifelong political concerns in a popular language that spoke directly to the American public . |
| 27 | The wood ended at a wheat field that sloped downhill to the unhedged road from which the dust was rising to hang in the hot air . |
| 28 | The thought gave her courage , and she stepped out more boldly , coming into another road that ran parallel to the main one . |
| 29 | Michele lifted out Luce 's bag , passed her the crutch , and , having handed over the car keys , led her through the crush of people and vehicles to the steps that ran down to the Grand Canal . |
| 30 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |