Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
| 2 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 3 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 4 | WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union risked an ‘ inflationary disintegration ’ of its economic reforms unless it moved rapidly to a convertible rouble backed by gold , according to Wayne Angell , a governor of the US Federal Reserve , writes John Lichfield . |
| 5 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 6 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |
| 7 | After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting . |
| 8 | It would therefore not be too long before it settled down to a stationary state . |
| 9 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 10 | It gave on to a shadowed court whose centrepiece was an orrery on a stone plinth . |
| 11 | Up-stream , it sloped down to a grassy path between the trees and the water . |
| 12 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 13 | It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed , with no windows . |
| 14 | It pointed instead to a new meritocracy indistinguishable for all practical purposes from the old autocracy , but writ sometimes smaller , sometimes larger . |