Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | Over the next few days Maggie slowly got closer to Ana de Santis . |
| 3 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 4 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 5 | The objective henceforward became not to be a loser by using the benefits of a bourgeois education to tight the cause of all those losers in the world who , like his father , had been smashed by the bourgeois system itself . |
| 6 | The two mills were thus run in tandem by Marling and Co from 1883 to 1920 , when they eventually sold out to P.C. Evans and Sons Ltd . |
| 7 | Hearts0 St Mirren0 NOBODY anticipated a classic at Tynecastle and Hearts , needing to pick up both points to stay within sight of Premier Division leaders Rangers , and the doomed St Mirren duly lived up to expectations . |
| 8 | By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober . |
| 9 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 10 | So I phoned Mrs I eventually got through to her then I had to phone the prison to tell daddy because he was going to go in and erm I mean I , and then I go back to work , Grant . |
| 11 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 12 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 13 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 14 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 15 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 16 | We eventually got back to our campsite at around 5.00pm . |
| 17 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 18 | The wind rose in a rending sigh , filling the night with sound , and slowly sank again to quietness . |
| 19 | Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West . |
| 20 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 21 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 22 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 23 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 24 | Although Crewe are reluctant to sell , Hignett now seems certain to follow in the footsteps of Platt , Rob Jones and Geoff Thomas , who all moved on to win international honours after launching their first team careers at Gresty Road . |
| 25 | Some grain of self-preserving sense must have penetrated Rickie 's skull , for he suddenly dropped on to his heels and offered me a placatory grin . |
| 26 | I only came here to — to tell you I 'm leaving in the morning . ’ |
| 27 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 28 | Nicholas says his delayed return — he was released last Novemebr , but only came back to Britain a fortnight ago — was due to difficulties in getting back his passport from the Goan authorities . |
| 29 | She felt the beat of his heart against her breast but it only came halfway to comforting her . |
| 30 | The second time they did this , it suddenly came home to Grant just how terrified Jim Miller and his pal must have been , unarmed and defenceless , the night they had made their escape bid . |