Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 2 | After seeing the lovers return to the house , he listened with an ear to the wall until he heard them getting down to bedtime matters and then , in the words of firework manufacturers , lit the blue touch paper and retired . |
| 3 | I asked Suzannah what prompted her to go up to town tonight . |
| 4 | He saw the man Eochaid picked , and watched him ride out to mid-field with two unarmed monks and the biggest cross they could find , drawing men 's eyes from Thorfinn himself . |
| 5 | When , sensing that he had left her alone in more ways than one , the woman asked him to come back to bed , he had not turned to look at her but instead remained silent a moment longer . |
| 6 | And I wanted to be doing something so I went I went back to nursing . |
| 7 | There was an odd quality to the tone he used that sent her rushing in to speech . |
| 8 | The sound of the telephone shrilling by the side of her bed brought her gasping back to wakefulness . |
| 9 | What languages did they draw on to fracture the earlier consensus and what historical forces enabled them to orchestrate their campaign as a national protest ? |
| 10 | And if she had not dreamed it , how had she got back to bed ? |
| 11 | The miles of wet , corrugated sand were alive with dancing light , sparkling , glittering : it almost blinded you to look out to sea . |
| 12 | What had he come up to Jubilee Wood for ? |
| 13 | He said he accepted back to prison would cause added distress and punishment , but he said the original sentence did not reflect the gravity of the offence or Haydons bad driving record . |
| 14 | And he said he was alright over you know , that period and he said he got back to office , then two hours later he said he was in , in such great pain ! |
| 15 | Julie said he went up to bed and she she said he sat his , sat on the bed , went like that and he was snoring . |
| 16 | He suggested they went out to dinner on the Saturday at a reputedly excellent roadhouse . |
| 17 | Anwar suggested he come back to till-work another time . |