Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then onwards we cut full-size wallpaper blocks faced with lino and passed on the blocks to Coles who printed and sold the designs . ’ |
| 2 | Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow copied his machine in 1846 and passed on the details to so many people that for more than fifty years he was generally regarded as the inventor of the bicycle . |
| 3 | At five o'clock she returned to the theatre and crept up the stairs to the dressing-room . |
| 4 | Like Rolle , Hilton sees prayer as the primary activity , recognising it as a state of consciousness which enables man to receive the gift of God ; and while it does not cause it to be given , nevertheless prayer is a way in which such grace comes ( c.24 ) He sharpens a constant awareness of two modes of activity in the inner life : that of conscious effort , and that of an effortless creative power of love and understanding which is sometimes experienced and believed by the mystics to be the work of God in man . |
| 5 | The voice was female , Dublin , and came from the stairs to his left . |
| 6 | Seeing movement among the trees at the far end of the stone-flagged path , she turned and signalled to the maids to be quiet . |
| 7 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 8 | I dressed and rushed through the streets to Dana 's place , and after prolonged hammering on his door managed to wake him and tell him the news . |
| 9 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 10 | He shook his head in wonder , and walked down the stairs to the hall , and out into the bright morning sunlight . |
| 11 | Marie-Christine must be riding high in local esteem , Sabine thought as she parked her car in the square , and walked up the steps to the mairie with the other guests . |
| 12 | Its stored sun-power fired through her , steadying her nerves ; she poured another shot and stumbled towards the stairs to her room . |
| 13 | She reached the cliff and scrambled down the steps to the beach . |
| 14 | Trembling , he hugged the most worn and shortened of the punches to his heart , thumbing its point , and wrestled with the words of compliance that rose all too readily . |
| 15 | Frankie got to his feet and tip-toed up the steps to the first-floor landing . |
| 16 | He brushed his brown wavy hair , put on a top-hat , and went down the stairs to the street . |
| 17 | ‘ Good night , Superintendent , ’ I told him and went down the steps to the police car . |
| 18 | Miguel smoothed back his hair over his ears , put on the dark glasses , and reached for the keys to the jeep . |
| 19 | Some time later , when the house had settled down to sleep , Lord Charles tiptoed out of his room and slipped along the corridors to his lady 's chamber . |
| 20 | So old Mokosh changed herself to a moorhen and ran through the meadows to the town , and Neva followed her . |
| 21 | She just ignored Alain 's voice and ran up the stairs to her room , ignoring the way it made her dizzy . |
| 22 | With a brief , mocking smile , he turned away and hurried up the steps to the hotel lobby , his back as hostile as a roll of barbed wire . |