Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) .
2	Felt like not going to school I can tell you .
3	She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep .
4	Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge .
5	After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor .
6	His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed .
7	The Airds had long since gone to bed .
8	No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could .
9	But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation .
10	Mrs Tain ex-Kinlochewe had long ago retired to bed .
11	The NARCOG budget had apparently not stretched to air-conditioning , and there were times when life in Filanta Court was almost insupportable .
12	Denis , in his nine years in the United States had never really taken to baseball .

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