Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one of this year 's Crufts group winners made it through to the last forty ! |
| 2 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 3 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 4 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |
| 5 | The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing . |
| 6 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 7 | The italicised words take us back to the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ , and remind us that the fundamental difficulty of all curriculum planning — how to get a quart into a pint pot — still remains to be addressed . |
| 8 | It is a risky policy merely to ignore really aggressive behaviour , simply to let children or teenagers fight it out to the finish . |
| 9 | A sudden clatter of hoofs brought her back to an awareness of their public surroundings . |
| 10 | The main route directions take you back to the starting point , Staveley , though this means the final five miles of the circuit are spent moving away from the real Lake District . |
| 11 | It 's 412 grams pit it closer to the specialist motion control trainers of the market than the general all-round shoe it is designed to be . |
| 12 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 13 | Young golfers have it off to a ‘ tee ’ |
| 14 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 15 | It 's a weird phenomenon how the English bands turned us on to the music in our own part of the world — taught us to appreciate it . |
| 16 | Even sad films took us back to a world that we understood , a world where people lived their lives , hoping for happiness and sometimes even finding it . |
| 17 | The Tories have perhaps three years before back-bench revolts and by-election defeats force them back to the country . |
| 18 | When Northern crops crash up against a new pest or a new processing requirement , breeders hightail it back to the gene pool in search of the genetic variability that may help them . |
| 19 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 20 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |
| 21 | A sudden crash of cymbals pulled him back to the present . |
| 22 | Afterwards , one of the servants led us down to a vaulted cellar . |
| 23 | It seemed that every round of the cup had become a pressure game for Tommy but the Glens made it through to the semi-final against Bangor . |
| 24 | Since they had become used to hospitals it was believed both unfair to them and impracticable in resettlement terms to ship them out to the community . |
| 25 | But it was a note from Peter and Marianne , making arrangements to get her out to the wedding . |
| 26 | Kate managed to persuade one of the drivers of the hire cars Carlisle Flint had laid on for sponsors to drop her back to the hotel where the team were based . |
| 27 | ‘ They are enchanted by him , and that is why they made special arrangements to bring him home to the United States . ’ |
| 28 | If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard . |
| 29 | The pressure became too much as sponsors , fly-by-nights and average New Zealanders sent them off to the World Cup with the message that all New Zealand expected them to win . |
| 30 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |