Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway . |
| 2 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 3 | Then , when the war ended in the summer of 1945 , after being demobbed from Germany , he 'd gone straight back to the US , with no possible hope of any real communication between them except for one or two impermanent and unreliable addresses . |
| 4 | The sensation seemed to spread right down to the very pit of her stomach . |
| 5 | Now once he 'd stepped forward on to the on to the shore what happened ? |
| 6 | I opened the door for Patterson and then locked the cab up after he 'd stepped gingerly on to the pavement . |
| 7 | With his free hand he started shaking his wallet until the money began to fall out on to the desk . |
| 8 | She turned away from him and began to walk blindly back to the car . |
| 9 | They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him . |
| 10 | She knew , as she carried articles that required hanging up through to the wardrobes , that she was not going to tresspass any further on Ven 's generosity than to partake of a cup of tea with him . |
| 11 | She got to her feet and started to run back down to the temple . |
| 12 | He put his hand round his neck , made a strange sound , and fell face down on to the floor . |
| 13 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 14 | With this , she released Belinda abruptly , and the chicken dinner went slopping over on to the tray again . |
| 15 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 16 | You had to go right down to the bottom to the lavatory : that was a game , that was . |
| 17 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 18 | She had dropped miserably on to the lowest stair . |
| 19 | Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere . |
| 20 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 21 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 22 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 23 | In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery . |
| 24 | Denholm , who had moved out on to the starboard wing , returned , lowering his binoculars . |
| 25 | She had appealed right up to the Director of the Bureau , and after telephoning Vice-President Odell he had agreed to bring her along . |
| 26 | Jasper had got down on to the floor and was grubbing about under the carpet . |
| 27 | At the other end of North Africa , on 8 November , Anglo-American forces had landed in Algeria , and Rommel had retreated right back to the Agheila position , where he dug in on the defensive . |
| 28 | She almost argued with him , but his hand had slipped meaningfully down to the handle of his knife . |
| 29 | And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility . |
| 30 | Nutty discussed the problem one night with Biddy after the others had set off back to the factory . |