Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years .
2 Drinkers at Peter Kavanagh 's in Egerton Street , Toxteth , Liverpool , became so attached to their papier mache guy featured in last night 's Echothey launched a petition to save him .
3 They 're not angst-ridden outsiders and they exhibit no signs of the burgeoning self-importance , self-pity and self-aggrandisement we became so used to during John Hughes ' years as Tycoon of Teen .
4 He was joined on most of his hunting expeditions by two Aborigines , Natty and Jemmy , ‘ two intelligent and faithful natives of the Yarrundi tribe ’ , who became extremely attached to Gould and later accompanied him on his most ambitious and successful expedition to the Mokai and Namoi Rivers in December of that year .
5 I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go .
6 The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips .
7 His name and achievements became better known to the general public , however , in the sphere of lighter music : in operetta rather than in opera , and above all in the stage works of Franz Lehár , in which he charmed thousands by his sympathetic tenor quality and by the grace and variety of his vocal inflections .
8 The Government remain entirely committed to bringing terrorism to an end through the vigorous and impartial actions of the police and the Army .
9 With a very limited manufacturing base and agricultural production of foodstuffs insufficient to feed the country , Zambia became highly exposed to the vagaries of international markets .
10 The tidal braking would therefore be greatest around perihelion , and it is this that has presumably led to the partial synchronization observed .
11 The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does .
12 Confident in our own superiority over the rest of the animal kingdom , it has rarely occurred to us to question how other creatures perceive the world .
13 The number of mental hospital beds trebled to over 300,000 in 20 years and has since risen to 340,000 .
14 It has since migrated to Europe , Latin America and the Caribbean , leaving a trail of slightly different strains in its wake .
15 The restricted B-share has since fallen to 161 , reducing the total market capitalisation to 10.7 billion crowns .
16 Robert , Kim 's father , has since moved to Paignton Zoo in South Devon , where he is in the company of some more mature females !
17 Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses .
18 Steven has since moved to Marseille while winger Mark Walters is now with Liverpool .
19 The Freshman Consultancy opened in January 1991 in offices near London 's Euston station and has since moved to Chamber Street in E1 near Tower Hill .
20 A CHANCE meeting at 's 1989 Summer Fayre has led to a lasting romance for 's stock controller and from in France who has since moved to England to continue the relationship .
21 Their daughter , Kerry , has since moved to Thirsk where she and her husband , Mr Nigel Morgan , and 18-month-old daughter , live in Front Street , Sowerby .
22 Toxic-shock syndrome reached a peak in 1980 but has since declined to a stable level of about 25 a month .
23 Council tenure , almost non-existent in 1914 , grew to a maximum or 34 per cent of households in 1980 and has since declined to 24 per cent , plus 2 per cent of households which rent from housing associations .
24 By 1980 the firm already had eleven consultants in the UK in addition to its directors , and this has since increased to twelve .
25 Anyway , Lesley-Jane jumped to the conclusion that everyone else has since jumped to — that you shot Micky — and screamed .
26 603 went to Philadelphia for the American Bi-Centennial celebrations in 1976 , but has since returned to San Francisco .
27 This type of maze allowed David Olton in Baltimore and John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel ( both expatriate Americans , then working at University College , London , though Nadel has since returned to the US , to Tucson , Arizona ) to distinguish between working and reference memory cues in learning the task .
28 She has since returned to Mexico and we are now pen-pals .
29 The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term .
30 He was a great expert , founder of the arboretum at Westonbirt nearby , and he filled every vista with a dazzling display of ornamental and specimen trees , which the Prince has since added to .
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