Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 2 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 3 | Minnis decided to do something for others who might similarly be afflicted which resulted in the Kenilworth Club and the PGL contributing annually to a fund . |
| 4 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 5 | Combine all that with a superb sunshine record , oodles of local bonhomie by both day and night , and we think you 'll agree Seefeld adds up to an Eagle of a holiday ! |
| 6 | Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 . |
| 7 | FOLLOWING THE FIRST day of The Subject Was Roses rehearsals , Dustin went over to a girlfriend 's apartment for dinner brimming with enthusiasm and confidence . |
| 8 | Then Gary Gregory leaned over to a pal viewing the programme with him and said : ‘ Can you keep a secret ? |
| 9 | Middlesbrough came close to a breakthrough in the 63rd minute . |
| 10 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 11 | Then Jane goes away to a school called Lowood . |
| 12 | SOME years ago , the poets Hugh MacDiarmid and Basil Bunting dropped in to a bar in Moffat , Dumfriesshire . |
| 13 | The Lincolnshire ones lost all their sons in the first World War , except one invalid one , and became rather impoverished , and the Norfolk Baileys hung on to a lot of the money . |
| 14 | Liam sprang on to a table , raised a glass and began to declaim a speech . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , there 's Laura in the other room ’ Maggie waved cheerily to a woman she did not know . |
| 16 | In August 1746 Leapor looked forward to a career as a writer and perhaps she felt she now had less cause to protest . |
| 17 | Cambridge dominated after the interval , but Millwall went close to an equaliser in the 63rd minute when Etienne Verveer headed against the foot of the post . |
| 18 | From a corner , Shearer reacted brilliantly to a Colin Hendrie head down , lashing a superb volley into the roof of the net for his 20th goal of the season . |
| 19 | And if that was the case , then the idea for Artemis to move up to a horse must surely have sprung from him . |
| 20 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 21 | Hard-running Cambridge came close to a goal after 24 minutes . |
| 22 | Killion shuffled over to a box of ammunition . |
| 23 | Titron went over to an angle of thirty-five degrees . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend therefore have a meeting with his opposite number at the Department of Trade and Industry and endeavour to bring ECGD rates down to a level which would be more favourable to British exporters ? |
| 25 | Tom walks over to a pizza stall , looking as at home here as a row of tulips in the Gobi Desert . |
| 26 | Even in fantasy he could not see Terry Place settling down to a game of chess . |
| 27 | Tom pointed sadly to a patch of grass in the back garden . |
| 28 | If convicted , Pierce faces up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine , which Van Halen have offered to pay . |
| 29 | Harvey stepped up to a door marked ‘ Recreation ’ . |
| 30 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |