Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked , his pace swift , down the twisting path , then hesitated where it veered off to the staff-cabins . |
| 2 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 3 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
| 4 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 5 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 6 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 7 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 8 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 9 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 10 | I du n no what to do now so I go up to the big electric sign board and have a look at it . |
| 11 | I du n no what to do , so I go back to the caff and have a look in the window . |
| 12 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 13 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
| 14 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 15 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 16 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 17 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 18 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 19 | Present your recommendations to him and he 'll say well yeah I 'd like to think about it and you go off then oh fair enough then so you go back to the branch and the second becomes a third |
| 20 | You then rotate the eyepiece so you get back to the condition that you had before . |
| 21 | ‘ So you walked out to the shoal and — ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So you ran off to the sea ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ People think that once you move up to the marathon , then bang , that 's it , there 's no way back . |
| 24 | Suddenly rain poured down , and although we hurried back to the house , we were quite wet when we arrived in the hall . |
| 25 | That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful . |
| 26 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 27 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
| 28 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 29 | The vase wobbled , so he hung on to the window ledge to steady himself . |
| 30 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |