Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cow was bled , pulled into a van and the peer drove off to the abattoir . |
| 2 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 3 | The Prince went back to the bible and put his hand on it . |
| 4 | The idea of the Temple went back to the time of Moses when God commanded a tabernacle ( i.e. a tent ) to be built in which to keep the Ark of the Covenant . |
| 5 | The supplicant scampered round to the chairman 's better side , and said , more loudly than he perhaps intended , the microphone picking up his words quite clearly , ‘ Say no to the bugger . ’ |
| 6 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
| 7 | Lurching , grabbed flailing images blurted by , half opaque , bleached , before the contrast tightened down to a murky blackness . |
| 8 | Then I had to place the silver-coloured piece on to the needle heads with the latches open and draw the knitting towards me so that the latches closed and the knitting slid on to the silver piece . |
| 9 | At the bottom of Grafton Street , the driver swung around to the left into College Green . |
| 10 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 11 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 12 | At first she thought it was like a watch-tower , because the roof sloped down to the tops of the two windows , making them the most important things . |
| 13 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |
| 14 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 15 | The Sheikha looked up to the sun . |
| 16 | The survivors scrambled back to the sepoy lines pursued by a vengeful squadron of Sikh cavalry . |
| 17 | Rodo screamed as the light surged up to a brilliance that stung his eyes . |
| 18 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 19 | The wind went round to the east and freshened . |
| 20 | It was then that the wind changed round to the north-west and the first , and worst , of the storms hit the Flamingo . |
| 21 | ’ The car came up to the standard required . |
| 22 | Then the car hurtled on to the deceptive green meadow — and into it ! |
| 23 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 24 | One who smoked too much , that was evident by the time the car turned on to the autostrada going south towards Siena , its light and siren going although the roads were fairly quiet . |
| 25 | The car turned on to the A45 heading towards Wellingborough . |
| 26 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 27 | The front door slammed shut and the Countess collapsed on to the bottom step of the staircase , her legs useless . |
| 28 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 29 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 30 | The superintendent wandered over to the window . |