Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her first employment was likely to be as a " reading girl " , that is to sit on a stool and read out the copy to a compositor . |
| 2 | She turned in a swirl of nylon jersey , and flung wide the door to the study , where the subsiding glow of the fire still burned . |
| 3 | He wrapped his mackintosh carefully round the small sketch-pad and fled down the pathway to the church , arriving in the nick of time , for as he closed the heavy arched door behind him , a slow drizzle of rain swept across the village and surrounding fields . |
| 4 | The track switchbacked and twisted down the escarpment to the valley below . |
| 5 | Thus , one of the major criticisms formulated by the social movements of the 1960s , and by radical groups within socialist and labour parties , was directed against ‘ consensus politics ’ which placed a high value upon the existing parliamentary institutions and played down the commitment to radical changes in the social system . |
| 6 | In Italy , a general strike in May 1922 , enabled Mussolini 's Fascists to drive the Communist Administration of Bologna out of office , and later that year , Mussolini unseated the government and handed over the administration to the King and the Army , which left the Italian King with little alternative but to ask Mussolini to form a new government , which was sworn-in on 31st . |
| 7 | The Marshal had made a point of checking on that because although the Florentines spent a small fortune on electronic locks , bars , security doors and burglar alarms they quite open pressed the switches and opened up the lot to anybody with the wit to ring the bell and call ‘ Telegramtne ! ’ |
| 8 | This had better be good , I thought grimly as I crossed the road and walked up the cul-de-sac to the Parsonage . |
| 9 | Alone in my cabin , then I got comfortable , put all troublesome thoughts out of my mind , and switched on the vid to one of the best of what the vid expressively calls it Everlasting Serials . |
| 10 | Davis seized one end and started down the bank to where the horse was fast in the mud . |
| 11 | He leapt and took out the window to the President 's bedroom with his left shoulder . |
| 12 | The man screamed , fell off his seat , and rolled down the aisle to the front . |
| 13 | She yawned sleepily and slipped down the bank to the water 's edge to wash her face with her paws . |
| 14 | He was still barely conscious and had n't the energy to be anything but himself . |
| 15 | She indicated Chris with a quick nod of the head , and ran up the garden to the house . |
| 16 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 17 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |
| 18 | He smacked his lips , winked at the girl and held out the goblet to be refilled . |
| 19 | The guide led her into the air-conditioned jewellery shop and held out the box to a sales assistant . |