Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 2 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 3 | It was painted while and there was an untidy hedge in front of it , divided by a rickety gate which led on to a short path to the front door . |
| 4 | There was a trap-door in the centre of the kitchen floor , which led down to a deep cellar . |
| 5 | Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area . |
| 6 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
| 7 | Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net . |
| 8 | Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net . |
| 9 | There was no room with Jimmy and Sean , and Marcus and Pete moved on to a different table . |
| 10 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 11 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 12 | As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill . |
| 13 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 14 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 15 | Then he dropped his arms as the music changed back to a funky disco beat , and without his support she stumbled , only just managing to catch herself in time before she fell against him . |
| 16 | However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants . |
| 17 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 18 | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path , I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd 's hut built into one wall . |
| 19 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 20 | She came off to a reasonable round . |
| 21 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 22 | Even allowing for delicious exaggeration it still added up to a horrifying picture and she began to wish she had n't even tried to get into the company . |
| 23 | The weather was perfect , the room inviting and comfortable which added up to a happy atmosphere . |
| 24 | As far as he could , he would keep a record of the magician 's movements and see if they added up to a meaningful pattern . |
| 25 | For inveterate cattle-lifters it all added up to a convenient no-man's-land across which to launch thieving raids . |
| 26 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 27 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 28 | Only one out of 208 pints served in 104 pubs , clubs and restaurants in Birmingham came up to a full measure , trading standards officers disclosed . |
| 29 | About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added . |
| 30 | They drove out to a delightful restaurant , and Alyssia made a pig of herself . |