Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , however , his deadly spell was merely a generous layer of icing on the cake with Leicestershire looking already doomed to failure at 86 for five . |
| 2 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 3 | She managed to control herself and fortunately Dr Neil was as quiet as she was , and when they reached Vetch Street Matey had already gone to bed . |
| 4 | But out of sight at the other end of the course , Mr Hill had also come to grief . |
| 5 | She closed the living-room door before answering , even though Dickie had long gone to bed . |
| 6 | Christopher did not run to pattern . |
| 7 | And Fand did n't try to counter-attack , only parrying again and again with the shaft of her spear , gripped in her two hands . |
| 8 | Frank did not look to fat — i guess it 's more a question of some people — looking fat — even though they are n't . |
| 9 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 10 | FEELING FIT : Roy has already returned to work Pictures : BILL ROWNTREE |
| 11 | STEELFACE KNEW how to get to City Hall . |
| 12 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |
| 13 | Dolly , Tom and Carrie had all gone to bed , but Seb 's knocking brought Tom to the bedroom window complaining about being disturbed at such a late hour . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 15 | After a couple of minutes ' polite talk and the offer of a cup of tea , Mrs Tanner went away to talk to mother . |
| 16 | At the height of the party , when he thought he would not be missed , Seb slipped away to return to Fern Cottage . |
| 17 | Lunia insisted that Modigliani did not drink to excess , that the stories of his drinking and drug-taking are extremely exaggerated . |
| 18 | The main parties were pleased to have excluded such an authoritarian figure from government and de Gaulle did not return to power for 12 years . |
| 19 | Green did not go to church every Sunday — sometimes he walked around the house and idled , or went for a walk in the hills ; but he notes his attendance at church , in Ambleside , Grasmere or Keswick and the preacher he has heard . |
| 20 | ‘ In the past , TUPE has not applied to MoD contracts , but now , following various European legal decisions , it is highly likely that in future it will . |
| 21 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 22 | After half-an-hour of this sort of thing , it suddenly began to dawn on everybody that Mr Clarke had only got to clause one of the actual legislation . |
| 23 | It required the applicant States to demonstrate that Germany had either consented to Article 6 , or that Article 6 had become customary international law . |
| 24 | The CMR does not apply to traffic between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 25 | Roman sounded gravely resigned to humour her , his gaze wry as he watched her . |
| 26 | While many Alfonsists became increasingly attracted to fascism after 1931 , openly fascist organizations made little headway in Spain before 1936 . |
| 27 | Well if you think about it it 's the only principle that America has ever gone to war over . |
| 28 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 29 | FSA does not apply to advice given by a person to another person ( ie it is excluded ) if : |
| 30 | Nevertheless , despite all the necessary caveats regarding Nizan 's possible disenchantment with the reality of the Soviet experiment , and the difficulty he experienced in making the transition from sectarian to popular front tactics , Nizan remained fully committed to communism and the PCF between 1935 and 1939 . |