Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her hips moved slowly to a beat in the music only she seemed to hear . |
| 8 | Wilson presents these in a chapter devoted entirely to a discussion of the practices of each of the 12 laudesi companies . |
| 9 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 10 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 11 | The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple . |
| 12 | He moved over to a group of boatmen sitting beneath a large gilt mirror . |
| 13 | Then the atoms are projected upwards with velocity of 2.5 m s -1 ; and cooled further to a temperature of 2.8 K. They are then optically pumped into the F=3 hyperfine level and pass through the microwave interaction region where they experience the first pulse of tunable microwaves centred close to the F=3 to F=4 transition at about 9.2 GHz . |
| 14 | His driving was a delight , and he moved smoothly to a century in four hours without offering a chance . |
| 15 | Christina had n't seen Martin for about six months , since Stephen had made it plain how much he objected even to a friendship between them . |
| 16 | The death of the AHA was not the last word of its members , since the caucus moved across to a position within the new Victoria District Authority , which took over responsibility for the management of the AHA 's asylums . |
| 17 | She reported sternly to a meeting of the management team that word-of-mouth recruitment might be taking place . |
| 18 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 19 | As the freight train came slowly to a halt at the loop stop signal near the box , the fireman told the signalman of their problem who in turn reported the incident to the train control . |
| 20 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 21 | SOME years ago , the poets Hugh MacDiarmid and Basil Bunting dropped in to a bar in Moffat , Dumfriesshire . |
| 22 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 23 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 24 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 25 | A breathless Charlie managed to catch him up when he came finally to a halt behind a tree . |
| 26 | They came finally to a gap in the hedge on the left-hand side of the road where there was a five-barred gate . |
| 27 | This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices . |
| 28 | The Doctor darted over to a pile of broken rocks . |
| 29 | While Liz was nibbling pistachio nuts , surveying dominions , Shirley , hot , red and angry ( but not appearing to be angry ) was listening yet once more to her mother-in-law 's description of her digestive system and what the doctor had said about the swelling of her legs , a commentary which followed closely upon her complaints about the absence of her two older grandchildren who had ( in Shirley 's view very wisely ) buggered off to a disco at Maid Marian 's Nitespot . |
| 30 | Evenings she came home to a stack of manila envelopes with folded papers lettered in scarlet and black . |