Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hare was running and the Atom lived up to her name and blasted clear . |
| 2 | The fragmentation led inevitably to violence and misery . |
| 3 | A ‘ Slaven for Scotland ’ number was followed immediately by the striker 's selection for Ireland ; the ‘ Pears for Sweden ’ shirt led inevitably to the goalie missing his England B call up with a fractured cheek bone . |
| 4 | The story got back to England , as a result of which Lake was court- martialled and dismissed the Navy . |
| 5 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 6 | Green Realignment 's independent existence got off to an uncertain start when one of the six members of its steering group , Lou Betts , announced that he had decided to rejoin the Green Party . |
| 7 | A white T-shirt clung faithfully to the contoured steel of his pectoral muscles . |
| 8 | Each time you claim , you 'll receive a cheque made out to you , to spend as you wish , within days of making your claim . |
| 9 | Please enclose a cheque made out to Beverley Borough Council . |
| 10 | After some 10 days we received our order back from Bailey Distribution Ltd with a memo asking for a new cheque made out to them , since they could not transfer the original cheque due because it was crossed . |
| 11 | The money announced today would be a one-off payment made automatically to the victims which would not imply any acceptance of liability on the part of the Government . |
| 12 | And the April referendum applied only to savings banks . |
| 13 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 14 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 15 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 16 | A few weeks later the boy complained of a further assault ; the tailor was again convicted and once more fined £5 , but on this occasion the clerk to the Board applied successfully to the magistrates for the boy to be discharged from his indentures . |
| 17 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 18 | Norton 's Coin got back to his cowshed at about 10.30 p.m . |
| 19 | The lane near our cottage led only to a farm , the youth hostel poised on the edge of the cliff and a monument to a Welsh poet , put there by his friends . |
| 20 | I would completely agree provided that this measure applied only to responding patients . |
| 21 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 22 | Every item is individually made — as our photographer found out to his cost when he moved the sack of potatoes sending us scrabbling to retrieve them ! |
| 23 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 24 | This is the only fair of its kind devoted exclusively to original works on paper and provides a showcase for over 50 leading galleries and dealers . |
| 25 | It comprised , for each wing , a 2.5-inch wide curved aluminium strip fastened chordwise to the upper and lower wing surfaces to cover the inboard and outboard attachments for the wing fuel tank ; shaped fairings covering the three flap hinges beneath the wing lower surface ; a 2-inch wide thin aluminium sheet pop-riveted to the wing undersurface and covering the gap between the flap and the wing undersurface ; and a similar 4-inch wide sheet covering the gap between the aileron and the wing undersurface . |
| 26 | The first computer dedicated solely to investigating climate change has begun operations at the Meteorological Office 's Hadley Centre at Bracknell . |
| 27 | Last night the hurricane moved on to Louisiana . |
| 28 | The porter staggered drunkenly to his feet . |
| 29 | With the exception of the Sergeant in the Princeps ' seat , those inside the head had not been able to notice the fireball behind them , though the blast wave contributed somewhat to their sway . |
| 30 | It was a notice board devoted exclusively to funeral announcements , and the lawyer 's death was well represented . |