Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
2 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
3 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
4 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
5 | It came back to the same thing . |
6 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
7 | Melanie tuned in to the same image and whispered : ‘ Go on , pick a card , any card , ’ in a Tommy Cooper voice . |
8 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
9 | After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then . |
10 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
11 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |