Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university . |
| 3 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 4 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 5 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 6 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 7 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 8 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The project was first brought on stream three years ago , slowly building up to its present day output of 750m generating units . |
| 11 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 13 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 17 | By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober . |
| 18 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 21 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 24 | We eventually got back to our campsite at around 5.00pm . |
| 25 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 26 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 27 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 28 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 29 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 30 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |