Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 2 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 3 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 4 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 5 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 6 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 7 | Howling jackals and hyenas disturbed their nights , and kites swooped on to the plate of any man foolish enough to leave his food uncovered . |
| 8 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 9 | I led on to the subject of the probability of his having shortly to be released from his pain and suffering and hoped that his trust was in his Saviour and he replied , ‘ Oh yes , it is ! |
| 10 | In later stages , cottage and craft industries were moved into factories , which then led on to the development of ‘ machinofacture ’ ( mechanised production ) through technological innovation . |
| 11 | The great events of his administration were the return to the gold standard , the Treaty of Locarno , the General Strike , the Imperial Conference of 1926 which led on to the Statute of Westminster , and the measures originating in the Ministry of Health for the reform of local government and the extension of social security . |
| 12 | She read on to the story of holidays at Blackpool and Filey , a trip to London , and the gradually expanding horizons which writing brought to Walter . |
| 13 | Amaranth twirled about , and a lemony yellow scarf fluttered on to the head of William Rees Mogg . |
| 14 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 15 | During the 1960s and 1970s interest in the language of Caribbeans in British schools led eventually to the publication of specialised teaching materials and the implementation of policies in the light of two Commissions of Inquiry ( Bullock 1975 ; Rampton 1981 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 17 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 18 | Nor , it appears , was any copy of the order as finally sent out from AFHQ passed on to the office of the US Political Adviser Alexander Kirk . |
| 19 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 20 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 21 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 22 | According to Merleau-Ponty , Western academic Marxism , starting with Lukács , amounted only to the production of ‘ ideas without historical equivalents ’ ( 204 ) . |
| 23 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 24 | The rain softened the surface and showed the imprint of their short stay as they swooped down to the mirage of what had been their habitat . |
| 25 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 26 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 27 | With the funds available , Florey collaborated with Chain , whose work on lysozyme , already mentioned , led naturally to a study of a wider range of antibacterial agents . |
| 28 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 29 | This gave him a view up one of the sidestreets which led down to the corner of the square . |
| 30 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |