Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 2 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 3 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 4 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 5 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 6 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 7 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday . |
| 8 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 9 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 10 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 11 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 12 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 13 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 14 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 15 | Jenkins picked up another four and handed them out to the other customers sitting at the counter . |
| 16 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 17 | On arriving at Southwell , Charles handed himself over to the Scottish commissioners in expectation of their support , but negotiations between them collapsed , and the Scots sold him to Parliament for £400,000 . |
| 18 | Haiducu not only failed to assassinate Goma and Tanase , but handed himself over to the French authorities with his weapon . |
| 19 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 20 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 21 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
| 22 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 23 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 24 | When the great man was exiled to Elba the diamond was returned to his father-in-law , Francis I of Austria , who duly handed it back to the French authorities . |
| 25 | He collected and threw it back to the pursuing fielder with an easy gesture-then suddenly clutched at his left side . |
| 26 | tuned it in to the four channels and I said what about video |
| 27 | Sometimes on their fronts , sometimes on their backs , sometimes half standing , they threw themselves down to the damp coils below . |
| 28 | The whole household walked them out to the big Ford at the end of the lane . |
| 29 | Vologsky punched out a sequence on the computer panel , which automatically locked him in to the local frequency . |
| 30 | Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows . |