Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first one came after 27 minutes , when Neil Matthews beat everyone else to the ball . |
| 2 | The remainder , very carelessly and messily written , was supplied by an unidentified copyist , who contributed nothing else to the score ; and it lacks trumpet parts , though he left staves for them . |
| 3 | It was difficult to stop my things from falling into the sea , but in the end I got everything on to the shore . |
| 4 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 5 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 6 | They sent one down to the hospital did n't they ? |
| 7 | He knocked on a door , said something quietly to the person who opened it , then walked upstairs . |
| 8 | And you had one close to the City Council , one is very close to the St Edward School one , was that for deliberate reasons . |