Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 According to her foster brother , another clue had been that she had so blatantly considered Vitor to be ‘ a real cool dude ’ , but she saw no reason to reveal that .
2 Purley depôt was put into use as a store for war damaged cars , plus a few cars in running order , which had not yet received windscreens to the driver 's platforms .
3 Perhaps he should extend it , for he had not yet taken Alice to the promised lunch at the Ritz , or been up to Leicestershire to see Mrs Appleby , or fulfilled his promise to Jenny to go down to Calking to see the shop and meet Jack and his family .
4 As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King .
5 To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later .
6 On Aug. 24 aid officials said that the UN had once more suspended flights to Juba after shells landed near a plane unloading food at Juba 's airport .
7 The Moroccan government had also reportedly taken exception to the October appointment of Georges Kiejman as the new French Justice Minister .
8 We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them .
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