Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 3 | I thought back to the 17th and remembered Lee 's words : ‘ Mr Lu does n't want to win the Open Championship . ’ |
| 4 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 5 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 6 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 7 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 8 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 9 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 10 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 11 | She went on to the next cubicle , a simple fractured thumb that even Joe Reynolds had managed to diagnose and set without too much trouble . |
| 12 | She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny . |
| 13 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 14 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 15 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 16 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 17 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 18 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 19 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 20 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 21 | So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’ |
| 22 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 23 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 24 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 25 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 26 | When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key . |
| 27 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 28 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 29 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 30 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |