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

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1 He then went on-to become a valuable back-up member of the squad that took Palace to promotion in 1989 and , after a useful spell on loan with Hull City in midwinter , returned to claim the left-back position for the remainder of the season , gaining himself the Barclays Young Eagle of the Month award in March 1990 , sharing in some excellent 1st Division results , the FA Cup semi-final victory over Liverpool and two Wembley appearances against Manchester United .
2 As so many times before , Vologsky carne to the end of the mental games he played with himself , dismissed the last hopeful excuse for his rejection and came face to face with the lonely bitterness of reality .
3 Then she turned away and came face to face with Emelda Linley .
4 Returning the chisel to the bench , she turned to leave and came face to face with Leo 's sister .
5 Then he blundered into the turning he wanted , limped down it and came face to face with the blank grey door leading into the four Turkey Pens .
6 And came nose to nose with the tortoiseshell .
7 Another Lassus pupil at Munich , Leonhard Lechner ( c. 1553–1606 ) , later a convert to Protestantism , began his career with Latin church music in his master 's style , composed a great tri-choral , 24-part epithalamium , ‘ Quid chaos ’ ( 1582 ) in the Venetian manner , and bade farewell to life in an extraordinary set of fifteen Spruche von Leben und Tod — the dramatic power and profound emotion of which , however , he had already anticipated in ‘ O Tod , du bist ein bittre Gallen ’ , one of his Newe teutsche Lieder ( Nuremberg , 1582 ) .
8 Dennis Hopper went to the meeting with Manson and sat face to face with him for two hours in a room on the eighth floor of the Hall of Justice .
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