Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 2 | The information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were . |
| 3 | ‘ … but , with their parents in hospital , I feel any such move would be counter-productive , ’ he 'd added curtly , dismissing the subject as he 'd turned back to the pile of papers in front of him . |
| 4 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 5 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 6 | Then he 'd driven round to the surgery of Drs Singh and Gupta , with whom he was registered , only to find that both were out on their rounds . |
| 7 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 8 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 10 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 11 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |
| 12 | He 'd gone over to the hedge that ran along each side of the white lodge and he 'd sat down . |
| 13 | I was listening engrossed to the woman I was walking to work with , who the night before had found two night-screws stretched out on the desk in a passionate embrace when she 'd gone downstairs to the office to ask for a Tampax . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 15 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 16 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 17 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 18 | Everything was sore , every muscle seemed wired directly to the arrow . |
| 19 | He had visited the studio on and off through his time with Vanessa — he 'd even met Martine there on two occasions when her husband had cancelled a Luxembourg trip and she 'd been too heated to miss a liaison — but it was charmless and cheerless , and he 'd returned happily to the house in Wimpole Mews . |
| 20 | He had overshot by fifty yards but , since there was no room to turn , he 'd backed up to the junction in a rapid , snaky line , and picked them up again after ten minutes of anxious-cautious driving — fast on the straights , slow on the bends . |
| 21 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 22 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 23 | But Sekularac said he had been pushed by the usher and pushed back after his glasses got knocked down to the ground . |
| 24 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 25 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 26 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 27 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 28 | Elvis had travelled back to the dawn of mankind and persuaded God to let him do it his way . |
| 29 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 30 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |