Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved coolly to the drinks cabinet , picked up the crystal decanter . |
| 2 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 3 | Captain Budd got through to the police station by telephone , only to be told that the constabulary had the situation well in hand . |
| 4 | Perhaps the meeting in 1896 at which " a choir rendered several hymns which added greatly to the evenings enjoyment " was the last effort to attract more people . |
| 5 | Perhaps the meeting in 1896 at which " a choir rendered several hymns which added greatly to the evenings enjoyment " was the last effort to attract more people . |
| 6 | They drove off to the police station and later returned to the pub with two officers . |
| 7 | He appealed directly to the pieds noirs and the army , using rhetoric that combined intimidating references to the authority of the state with tendentious but effective arguments to reassure them about the " real " aim of his policy . |
| 8 | He swivelled round to the Environments Officer . |
| 9 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked in to a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 10 | He declined to hand over the cash , no matter what was threatened , and he was too good a salesman to be sacked , so the dealing manager yelled over to the accounts clerk : " Deduct £50 from his month 's wages . " |
| 11 | Ninety three members and friends then went on to the Headlands Hotel for a celebration dinner where all the ladies received a white carnation . |
| 12 | The workhouse master reported that Connolly then put his boots on and went off to the police station to make a complaint of assault . |
| 13 | After four years in the Royal Artillery , Dignam was invalided out of the army and went straight to the Arts Theatre , where he was a delightfully tongue-in-cheek Shavian Angel and a foxy Claudius , proving Stanislavsky 's adage , as Agrippa in the Anthony Quayle/Edith Evans Antony and Cleopatra , that there are ‘ no small parts ’ . |
| 14 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 15 | He strode across to the drinks cabinet . |
| 16 | Her mother , Jane , rushed forward to greet her as she emerged on to the arrivals concourse at London 's Heathrow airport , while her nephew John ( 12 ) and niece Jessica ( eight ) leaped into her arms . |
| 17 | Greg flicked back to the contents list . |
| 18 | Of slight compensation were the visits of the ‘ professional ’ visitors , such as the patriotic , exquisite , ‘ Lady in Green ’ , described by Duhamel , who spoke inspiredly to the grands mutilés of |
| 19 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 20 | His legs were trembling as he ran back to the police car to radio for immediate medical help . |
| 21 | Bragg hurried across to the police section-house . |