Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then murder led him inexorably — apocalyptic naturalism — to confess and accept suffering , and acceptance of suffering took him back to mere existence which is living life , neither more nor less . |
| 2 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 3 | Short of this , he wants the Soviet Union tied more closely into the western economy , even as the ending of the cold war tied it closer to western diplomacy . |
| 4 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 5 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 6 | Later that evening , when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness . |
| 7 | The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points . |
| 8 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 9 | Wave after wave of a pleasure bordering on exaltation raised her gently to some peak , ebbed a little , then carried her up again , more fiercely than before . |
| 10 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |