Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 2 | Dressed in a white shirt and trousers , and with his white hair and a face apparently never submitted to the sunshine , he looked as though he had been rolled in flour preparatory to cooking . |
| 3 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |
| 4 | Given that we rarely ever got to the bye-line , Sunderland never looked really troubled by this . |
| 5 | ‘ We hardly ever went to the mainland . |
| 6 | He hardly ever came to the village any more . |
| 7 | Following the appointment of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653 , religious considerations once more came to the fore , although whether they ever took precedence over the more secular impulses behind foreign policy is doubtful . |
| 8 | Brownie helper Barbara once more came to the rescue and during the next week brought her daughter 's cassette tape-recorder to my home where , in spite of my nerves and her dim knowledge of recording , we managed to get the music for a small sequence on tape . |
| 9 | Four years and a name change later she once again took to the road as a solo performer . |
| 10 | Almost nine months later , we found an engine without the accessories , and Continental Airlines once again came to the rescue , flying Tim , our mechanic Chuck Blanchard and me out to see if we could get the Tri-Pacer flying again . |
| 11 | Andre once again came to the rescue of his country , the USA , in the deciding rubber of the quarter-final of the 1992 Davis Cup . |
| 12 | She put on her Wellington boots and once again spoke to the privet bird . |
| 13 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |
| 14 | She rose , ran across the room , unlocked the door , and then swiftly retreated to the bed again — not to lie on it , but to sit on it , huddled against the end , one shoulder against the iron railings of its head , hands primly in her lap , feet side by side , her whole posture defensive . |
| 15 | Fiery pace bowler Hughes seems certain to escape punishment after it appeared he spat at Greatbatch and then obscenely gestured to the crowd when the Kiwi batsman was dismissed . |
| 16 | Sometimes they went to the cinema , sometimes they sat in coffee bars holding hands across the table , sometimes they walked in the park , and on Saturdays they almost always went to the dance . |
| 17 | The former RAF engineer , of Eskdale , Skelmersdale , has come a long way since 1982 when he suffered a serious heart attack and his health then gradually deteriorated to the point where surgeons at Wythenshawe Hospital , Manchester , eventually decided that a heart transplant was Mr Brownrigg 's only chance . |
| 18 | As early as 1177 Pope Alexander III wrote to " John , the illustrious and magnificent King of the Indies " a letter he almost certainly despatched to the King of Abyssinia , who was already being identified as the Prester John . |
| 19 | By virtue of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , s.18 , at the moment of driving off the petrol no longer belonged to the garage . |
| 20 | The blue suit that no longer went to the Curragh race meetings or the Dublin Horse Show , was his evening wear . |
| 21 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 22 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 23 | You very rarely went to the cinema , unless you were young and middle class . |
| 24 | But it is an astonishing fact , a revelation both of his independent power of creating an ordered system and of his limitations of vision , that in this work he never once referred to the work of his predecessor . |
| 25 | The House of Lords held that the hirer had not ‘ bought or agreed to buy ’ the piano which therefore still belonged to the person from whom it had been hired . |
| 26 | There was , he said , ‘ no interest whatsoever ’ to the extent that : ‘ When I left junior school , they [ his surrogate parents ] never even came to the school to see about it . |
| 27 | I never even consented to the hotel , did I ? |