Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 2 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 3 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 4 | He began to walk down to the windows and saw an envelope on the floor and when he bent to pick it up , the floor creaked and gave way . ’ |
| 5 | Before the first week of term was up , awesome tales about the Headmistress , Miss Trunchbull , began to filter through to the newcomers . |
| 6 | ‘ By saying that the documentary needed to face up to the frauds , if only to distinguish them from sincere practitioners . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Harry had a chip shop in Bradford and it was because of his wife 's health that he decided to move out to the Dales in 1928 , ’ said Richard Richardson , Harry Ramsden 's marketing director . |
| 8 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 9 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 10 | The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love . |
| 11 | After two exhausting hours we had to give in to the flames . |
| 12 | But he would not countenance a " Party within a Party , " and the NAC had to face up to the consequences of maintaining a separate party in Parliament . |
| 13 | and on Friday , on that Friday Mother used to go to Eastwood Hall to collect the er er the wages that my Father had to pay out to the men . |
| 14 | They took things that I wanted to pass on to the children |
| 15 | Not exactly the sort of thought you wanted to pass on to the police at a time when two boys ' bodies had been found . |
| 16 | After the war he rejoined Robertson Hare for two more Ben Travers farces , Outrageous Fortune ( 1947 ) and Wild Horses ( 1952 ) , but though the heyday of the Aldwych farces was long gone , Lynn refused to give in to the changes of theatrical fashion . |
| 17 | If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she 'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions . |
| 18 | Two hundred years ago if you wanted to show off to the neighbours you built a tower on a hill which they could n't help but see for miles around . |