Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 2 | Green Realignment 's independent existence got off to an uncertain start when one of the six members of its steering group , Lou Betts , announced that he had decided to rejoin the Green Party . |
| 3 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 4 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 5 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 6 | While Durham Cricket Club got off to a resounding start , Sunderland brought a respectable gap between themselves and Division Three and Middlesbrough remained in contention for an automatic promotion spot , Newcastle moved into the bottom three of Division Two in remarkable circumstances . |
| 7 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 8 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 9 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
| 10 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 11 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 12 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 13 | Then the car hurtled on to the deceptive green meadow — and into it ! |
| 14 | The front door slammed shut and the Countess collapsed on to the bottom step of the staircase , her legs useless . |
| 15 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 16 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 17 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 18 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 19 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 20 | And yet , as our talk wound down to a close , Koons begged for more . |
| 21 | His small but powerful 5' 8 ’ frame was ideally suited to the cramped conditions of a space capsule , his body weight pared down to the absolute minimum for his build . |
| 22 | Theodora 's mind flashed back to the tall washed-out figure of Mrs Gray and her sudden passionate support of her husband 's good intentions . |
| 23 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |
| 24 | But when parliament woke up to the electronic age and first allowed its proceedings to be broadcast in 1978 , nobody was sure whether those broadcasts were also privileged . |
| 25 | At least London 's Notting Hill Carnival got off to a trouble-free start . |
| 26 | Yale University 's $1.5 billion capital campaign got off to a spectacular start when philanthropist Paul Mellon donated gifts valued at more than $50 million . |
| 27 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 28 | The Committee got off to a brisk start at its first meeting . |
| 29 | His family is suing the Kenyan government over his death from a fractured skull after the vehicle veered on to the wrong side of the road on 3 August , hitting the couple from behind . |
| 30 | Once the four moralists of the minority took over , and the question reverted back to the Holy Office ( still presided over at this date by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani ) , there could be no doubt about the answer : consistency required a continued ban on contraception . |